The workaround until this bug is fixed in IE5 (and it will be fixed) is to
use the ancestor function.  To check an element has a parent use
ancestor(*).

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mattias Konradsson [SMTP:preacher@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Friday, February 05, 1999 12:44 AM
> To:	xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	no parent??
> 
> Well, I got the advice to use  ".." to access the parent of the current
> context , but it doesn't seem to work (iis4 , ie5b2) Is there really no
> way
> that I can determine the parent of an element, rather than determine if an
> element has childs? I must be able to tie together parent-child elements
> :/
> I'm really suprised that thisnt isnt mentioned anywhere or maybe I'm doing
> something stupid.
> 
> -----
> Mattias Konradssson
> Icon Medialab
> 
> 
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