Hi,

I have the following XML:

<sm>
<Allocations>
<Item Parent="C" Level="1" class_code="C" class="Cash (C)" Allocation="0.5" />
<Item Parent="C" Level="2" class_code="00CC" class="Cash (00CC)" Allocation="0.5" />
<Item Parent="C" Level="3" class_code="CC00" class="Cash (CC00)" Allocation="0.5" />
<Item Parent="CE" Level="1" class_code="CE" class="Equity (CE)" Allocation="0.5" />
<Item Parent="CE" Level="2" class_code="00CE" class="Equity (00CE)" Allocation="0.5" />
<Item Parent="CE" Level="3" class_code="CE00" class="Equity (CE00)" Allocation="0.5" />
</Allocations>
</sm>

I have the following XSL:

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:call-template name="GetMax">
            <xsl:with-param name="Items" select="//Allocations//Item" />
        </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template name="GetMax">
        <xsl:param name="Items" />
        <xsl:variable name="MaxLevel">
            <xsl:for-each select="$Items">
                <xsl:sort select="@Level" data-type="number" order="descending" />
                <xsl:if test="position()=1">
                    <xsl:element name="Parent">
                        <xsl:value-of select="@Parent"/>
                    </xsl:element>
                    <xsl:element name="Level">
                        <xsl:value-of select="@Level"/>
                    </xsl:element>
                </xsl:if>
            </xsl:for-each>
        </xsl:variable>
        <xsl:value-of select="$MaxLevel/Parent" />
    </xsl:template>

In the above xsl, I am sorting the xml by Level and then creating a node using the xsl:element tag and putting this into the variable MaxLevel. But I am having trouble retrieving the values by perticular Element. If I use <xsl:value-of select="$MaxLevel" /> instead of <xsl:value-of select="$MaxLevel/Parent" /> at the end, it just prints the value's CE3. I don't want this. I want to be able to select these values 'Parent' and 'Level' Seperately into another variable and print that instead. Could someone guide me on how to archieve this please. Thank you.

NewToXSL

If you are using XSLT 1.0, then your variable named MaxLevel is a "result tree fragment" and you can't reference its content directly with a path expression, unfortunately. Your code would work in XSLT 2.0. In 1.0, many vendors have introduced an extension function of the form xx:node-set() where xx represents a vendor-defined namespace. This then allows you to say select="xx:node-set($MaxLevel)/Parent".

You didn't actually say how your code was failing so I may have the wrong end of the stick.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Try substring-before(concat(validSplit,','),',')

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference