which leaves walking the ancestor axis most of the time
yes ancestor-or-self::*[(_at_)dir][1]/@dir which probably isn't too expensive
if the xml tree isn't too deep.
Or of course you can arrange that the attribute in the source is called
xml:lang and use the lang() function.
ahh great - thanks David.
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