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RE: preceding-sibling
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] preceding-sibling
- From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:02:55 -0000
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> your answer is what I meant but I made a mistake in the mail :)
> Anyway, I can't make it work ... and I don't understand why.
>
> <xsl:when
> test="@type='{preceding-sibling::element[position()=1]/@type}V
> alueMap'">
>
> This is exactly what I'm tryin to do.
> I test the value of the 'type' attribute of the current node
> compared to
> the value of the 'type' attribute of the preceding node concatenated
> with "ValueMap".
You can't use an attribute value template within an XPath expression. Write
test="@type=concat(preceding-sibling::element[position()=1]/@type,
'ValueMap')">
Mike Kay
Software AG
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