Hi Wim,
Ok, I'll clearify my vague question with some real code. But it is rather
long.
OK. There are multiple problems with your code, some of which may be
related to your question and some of which may not be. I'm not going
to debug all of it, since some of the problems may have arisen due to
your cutting down your code. But to help you debug it, if you're
getting errors:
1. The <xsl:apply-templates> instruction takes a select attribute, not
a match attribute.
2. Parameter declarations should be the very first things in a
template: they shouldn't have any instructions or literal result
elements or text before them.
3. When you're in a template that matches <alternativecourses>
elements, then the expression "alternativecourses/alternative" will
not select any nodes; you need the path "alternative" to select the
<alternative> element children of the current <alternativecourses>
element.
4. The path:
ancestor::../../*/alt[(_at_)number=current()/@number]
is not a valid path. The ".." is a shorthand for "parent::node()" so
this expands to:
ancestor::parent::node()/parent::node()/child::*/child::alt[attribute::number=current()/attribute::number]
This isn't legal because the first step has two axes in it. I think
that you want:
ancestor::usecase/*/alt[(_at_)number = current()/@number]
if you want to select the <alt> element whose number attribute has the
same value as the number attribute of the current <alternative>
element.
5. The <alternative> elements in your example do not have number
attributes, and nor do the <alt> elements, so trying to select <alt>
elements whose number attributes have the same value as the number
attribute of the current <alternative> element is not going to work. I
still can't work out what you want here. If you want the value of the
<alt> element whose value is $number then that's the same as just
using $number. Are you sure that you don't just want:
<xsl:param name="start" select="$number" />
If not, then can you try explaining how $start needs to be calculated,
and perhaps we can then help you put together the code you need to
calculate it.
Cheers,
Jeni
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http://www.jenitennison.com/