How to read a parents' nodes, elements attribute 1

[chrish22]

Hi All

I have a simple question image the following XML

<toplevel>
<toptest odd=”Yes”>
<midlevel>
<midlevel value=”1000”>
</midlevel>
<toplevel>

Midway through my template i am then trying to access a parents' nodes elements attribute like so...

<xsl:for-each select="midlevel">
<xsl:value-of select="../toptest@odd"/>
</xsl:for-each>

Problem is this doesn't work.

I have a work around by using variables but this (invented?) syntax I am using should surely work??? Is it my parser?

Thanks for any help in advance

 

[tsuji]

The xml shown is not well-form and should contain typos. Disregarding that, the xpath is incorrect by itself.
><xsl:value-of select="../toptest@odd"/>
[tt]<xsl:value-of select="../toptest[red]/[/red]@odd"/>[/tt]

 

[chrish22]

Yes - thank you for correcting me, I have being learning XSLT over the last week or so an am probably suffering information overload

I appreciate XPATH by itself is incorrect, this is just a cut down sample - you wouldn't want to read through 100's of lines of my code!

 

[tsuji]

>I appreciate XPATH by itself is incorrect, this is just a cut down sample - you wouldn't want to read through 100's of lines of my code!
I too appreciate that it is a cut down thing; no, I don't want to read them. But what start me thinking is the way to look at one's work. Truth is not conditioned by volumn. A false within 100 lines does not make it a lesser false, true in one line does not make it lesser true. No need of excuse, we make error all the time.