store name of an ancestor

steelrose · June 15th, 2006, 10:26 AM

I want to set a variable equal to the NAME of an ancestor tag four levels above the current node. What am I doing wrong in the following, because it gives me the VALUES of ALL the children of the ancestor I want the name of...

<xsl:variable name="thisAncestor" select="../../../../*" />

Thanks!

mhkay · June 15th, 2006, 10:51 AM

What made you think that /* would give you the name of the node? To get that you have to call the name() function.

name(../../../..)

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

steelrose · June 15th, 2006, 11:24 AM

Brain malfunction and cut/paste error. Thanks again Michael.

Thanks!