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Ancestor-or-self demo
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File: Data.xml
<chapter>
<section xml:lang="de">
<warning>this is a test</warning>
</section>
</chapter>
File: Transform.xslt
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="no" />
<xsl:template match="warning">
<xsl:if test="ancestor-or-self::*[@xml:lang][1]/@xml:lang='en'">
<p>
<b>Warning!</b>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</p>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if
test="ancestor-or-self::*[@xml:lang][1]/@xml:lang='de'">
<p>
<b>test!</b>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</p>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<p><b>test!</b>this is a test</p>
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