My crystal ball tells me the OP doesn't have an XSLT problem at all.
Rather, he wants to express a constraint (one node's value is dependent on
another's). But he hasn't given us the operational context within which
this has to happen (a transform?), except to splice in a bit of Schema code.
He's presuming that he can use XPath to refer to the one node from the
other, but there doesn't appear to be a transformation here -- inputs and
outputs -- only a bit of constraint-checking (on a document we haven't seen).
It *seems* to be a Schema validation, and he *appears* to need an ID/IDREF
mechanism or its functional equivalent in XML Schema.
But since he thinks he needs XPath, and since he's posted here -- XSL-List,
not a list on XML Schema ... we're all as confused as he is.
Just a guess.
Cheers,
Wendell
07:03 PM 11/17/2003, you wrote:
> Its not my goal to change anything, I just wanna make sure
> that the length
> value in the Sub type has the same value as the
> SUBSTREAM_length element.
> But I dont know and dont need to know this value . I was
> hoping Xpath could
> be used but I'm getting a lot of negative reactions :(
The negative reactions are because you aren't stating your requirements
very clearly.
"I wanna make sure that" has at least two meanings:
* I want to test whether [the two things have the same value]
* I want to change [one thing to have the same value as the other]
Unless you can start writing a clearer specification of your
requirements, we might as well all go home.
Michael Kay
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