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RE: Variables and inherited attributes
- To: "'xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com>
- Subject: RE: Variables and inherited attributes
- From: Kay Michael <Michael dot Kay at icl dot com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:31:28 +0100
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
> the currently active value for xml:lang is
>
> <xsl:value-of select="ancestor-or-self::*/@xml:lang[1]"/>
>
Not quite; that select expression returns the set of xml:lang values on all
ancestor nodes (the [1] does nothing, as an element can't have two xml:lang
attributes), and the xsl:value-of then selects the string value of the first
one in document order, which is the outermost.
Correct is:
<xsl:value-of select="(ancestor-or-self::*/@xml:lang)[last()]"/>
or (perhaps marginally faster)
<xsl:value-of select="ancestor-or-self::*[@xml:lang][1]/@xml:lang"/>
Mike Kay
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