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Re: [xsl] Using the value of the current attribute in select

2011-04-03 18:25:20
There are (at least) two ways to do this.  First, you can save the
attribute value to a variable:

<xsl:variable name="colname" select="@name"/>
<xsl:variable name="fkey"
select="following-sibling::foreign-key[child::reference/@local=$colname]"/>

Alternatively, you could use XSLT's "current" function, which always
returns the node being processed by the current template:

<xsl:variable name="fkey"
select="following-sibling::foreign-key[child::reference/@local=current()/@name]"/>

-Brandon :)


On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Mansour Al Akeel
<mansour(_dot_)alakeel(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
I am trying to get a copy-of an element by the value of one of it's
decendants. The issue is that I need to match it with a value of the a
current attribute:


following-sibling::foreign-key[child::reference/@local="the_value_of_the_current_attribute"]

Here's an example of the xml I am trying to process.

<table>
   <column name="parent_id" />
   <foreign-key>
       <reference local="parent_id" />
   </foreign-key>
</table>


I want to use the @name of the column in the xpath expression.


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