<xsl:value-of select="$Colours[count(ancestor-or-self::node)]"/>

I think that in the predicate the ancestor-or-self would be based from the variable $Colours, you want to count the ancestor nodes of current()? or store . in a variable to use.

<xsl:value-of select="$Colours[count(current()/ancestor-or-self::node)]"/>

Josh
-----Original Message-----
From: Ragulf Pickaxe [mailto:jawxml@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 3:39 PM
To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  Getting value of specific element in external XML
document


Hi all,

I have the following problem:

During a transformation, I want different Colours on some elemets according 
to their position in the hierachy. Instead of a choose-when, I have tried 
following:

<!-- Top of XSL document -->
<xsl:variable name="Colours" 
select="document('Colours.xml')/colours/colour"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:copy-of select="$Colours"/> <!-- Gives back the whole -->
  <xsl:value-of select="$Colours[2]"/> <!-- Gives back the value of the 
second colour element -->
  <xsl:apply-templates select="node"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="node">
  <xsl:value-of select="$Colours[count(ancestor-or-self::node)]"/> <!-- 
Gives nothing at all -->
  <xsl:apply-template select="node"/>
</xsl:template>

In the template node, I have tried various things in the predicate, such as 
[position()=count(ansestor-or-self::node)] and the like, but nothing seems 
to work, except when I hardcode the value, which I obviously do not want.

What am I doing wrong here? I have absolutely no idea why this is not 
working.

The Colours.xml looks like the following:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<colours>
  <colour>red</colour>
  <colour>green</colour>
  <colour>bluez</colour>
</colours>

Regards,
Ragulf Pickaxe :-|

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