Re: XSL(check attribute exists in the parent node and get value for anot

Not sure from your example, but do you mean:

<xsl:if test="$entry/ancestor::tgroup/spanspec[(_at_)spanname=$sn]/@align">

(I took the slash out between spanspec and the [predicate]).

--David Mitchell

> <spanspec namest="c3" nameend="c5" spanname="35"
> align="right"></spanspec>
>
> above is the ancestor node. I want to check whether
> the ALIGN attribute exists based on the attribute
> SPANNAME value in the SPANSPEC. I tried using the
> following way, but it doesn't work. 
>
> <xsl:if
> test="$entry/ancestor::tgroup/spanspec/[(_at_)spanname=$sn]/@align">
> .....
> </xsl:if>


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