Simple XSL problem: parent attributes

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My XML looks like this:

<A name"alpha">
zero
one
</A>

What I want to output is this:

alpha:zero
alpha:one

If I use some XSL to style this...

<xsl:for-each select="A\B">
<xsl:value-of select="???" />:<xsl:value-of select="." />
</xsl:for-each>

...what do I use in ??? to select the parent attribute @name? What if B has an attribute @name too? Are there any other ways to do this that you can think of?

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[This message has been edited by Dave Flynn (edited May 09, 2001).]

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Dave, you can use <xsl:value-of select="../@name"/> construction
".." is a shorthand for parent axis, so "../@name" will select name attribute of parent element only.

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Sanjay Mishra

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Hi Dave,
I am posting both xml file and xsl file which will produce
the result you want. This is based upon what Mapraputa has said.
XML File: "1.xml"
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="1.xsl"?>
<A name="alpha">
zero
one
</A>
XSL File: "1.xsl"
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="A">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="B">

<xsl:value-of select="../@name"/> :
<xsl:value-of select="."/>

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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Sanjay

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