>         If I am the current context node and I wanted to know
> if any of my ancestors had the string "region" in its name, how will
> go about that.  I tried a number of combination with no success.
>
This is a bit tricky because "implicit existential quantification" applies
only to operators like "=", not to functions like contains(). In other
words, A="region" means "if any A equals 'region'", but contains(A,
"region") means "if the first A contains 'region'". But you can do it with a
predicate:

xsl:if test="ancestor::node()[contains(name(), 'region')]"

Mike Kay


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