RE: ancestor problem

Hi,

> I am kind of newbie with xsl and I have the following (really 
> anoying) 
> problem :

XSL-List <http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/> is a better place to ask general XSLT/XPath questions.
 
> I have a xml doc like this:
> 
> <result>
> 	<left>
> 		<ligne>
> 			<couleur>987656</couleur>
> 			<ligne>
> 				<couleur/>*
> 			</ligne>
> 		</ligne>
> 		<ligne>
> 			<couleur>666666</couleur>
> 			<ligne>
> 				<couleur/>*
> 			</ligne>
> 		</ligne>
> 	</left>
> </result>
> 	
> Is there a way to get the value of the first level couleur while 
> processing the second level ligne ?

What do you mean with "value of the first level couleur"? Concatenation of the string values?

> I process something like apply-template match:"//ligne/ligne"
> 
> I tried with this xpaht expression : <xsl:value-of 
> select="ancestor::left/ligne/couleur*"/>
>
> But I get a list of all first level couleur...

That will actually just give you "987656", as the result of that expression is a node-set and xsl:value-of will extract the string value of the first node in document order.

How about

  preceding::couleur[1]

or

  ancestor::ligne[2]/couleur

Cheers,

Jarno