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From: David_Marston@lotus.com
Subject: Re: Xalan: Support for axis
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:35:23 -0400
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Perry Hoekstra writes:
>I have the following chunk of code:
<xsl:value-of select="from-ancestors-or-self(MsgID)"/> 
That looks like old syntax. In Xalan,
<xsl:value-of select="ancestor-or-self::MsgID"/>
says to traverse the ancestor-or-self axis looking for
an element named MsgID, and if found, put out its
string value. (Speaking somewhat colloquially.)

You might need a new reference book on XSLT.
.................David Marston