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Re: get the value from a different child

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When you call the following line:

<xsl:value-of select="BILLING_ATTRIBUTES[NAME=$myName]"/>

you are asking for the value of the element "BILLING_ATTRIBUTES" which is a
child of the currently selected node.

1) There are no "BILLING_ATTRIBUTES" elements anywhere on the tree...
2) The current node is "ATTRIBUTE"
3) The "BILLING_ATTRIBUTE" element in your tree does not have any text()
nodes associated with it.

What you want is something like:

<xsl:value-of select="//BILLING_ATTRIBUTE[NAME=$myName]/VALUE/text()"/>

or, to be more precise:

<xsl:value-of select="../BILLING_ATTRIBUTE[NAME=$myName]/VALUE/text()"/>

(the first asking for a BILLING_ATTRIBUTE element anywhere on the tree, the
second specifically asking for a sibling of the current node).

By the way, if you are using anything other than IE5's XML parser, you can
use the shorthand:

<input type="text" name="{NAME}"
value="{="../BILLING_ATTRIBUTE[NAME=$myName]/VALUE}" />

instead of using <xsl:attribute>

Hope this helps,

Ben
 

The solution:

<xsl:template match="ATTRIBUTE[PERMISSION='1']">
  <TR>
    <TD>
      <xsl:value-of select="NAME"/>
    </TD>
    <TD>
     <INPUT TYPE="TEXT">
        <xsl:attribute name="NAME"><xsl:value-of select="NAME"/></xsl:attribute>
        <xsl:variable name="myName"><xsl:value-of select="NAME"/></xsl:variable>

        <xsl:attribute name="VALUE">
           <xsl:value-of select="/LIST/BILLING_ATTRIBUTE[NAME=$myName]/VALUE">
        </xsl:attribute>
     </INPUT>
 ...

thanks Benn!
ciao
 

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