Refering an outer element in xsl 1

[sheila11]

Hi all,

My XML looks like this:

<root>
<title>Some title here </title>
<table>
.....many table tags here with content....
</table>

</root>

Now in my XSL, when writing a template for the <table> tag, I need to refer to the <title> tag, and place it inside the <table> tags as:
<xsl:template match="table">
<cation><xsl:value-of select="????" /> </caption>
......
</xsl:template>

so that the <caption> tags appear within the <table> tags.

Is it possible to do this ? How?

TIA,
Sheila

 

[k5tm]

Sheila,

You want to use the parent axis.

<xsl:value-of select=".." />

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com

 

[sheila11]

Thanx Tom !
Sheila

 

[jaybytez]

w3schools has excellent tutorials for all xml technologies. This section is excellent for understanding XPath:

http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_location.asp

You can do things like .. or parent::node() to go back to the current node's parent node.