Question

I have the following xml structure (It is much longer and compicated in the real example)

<document>
    <node1>
       <child1/>
       <child2/>
       ...
  </node1>
  <anotherNode />
</document>

I want to create a template like

<xsl:template match="node1" mode="node1">
        <img alt="" src="{child1}" />
        ...
        ...

</xsl:template>

and to apply this template in another template like this

<xsl:template match="anotherNode">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="node1" mode="node1" />
</xsl:template>

If the node1 tag had parent that would be easy to do, but I can’t figure out how to match and apply template if it does not have a parent.

Answer 1

Use:

<xsl:template match="anotherNode"> 
    <xsl:apply-templates select="/*/node1" mode="node1" /> 
</xsl:template> 

Or alternatively:

<xsl:template match="anotherNode"> 
    <xsl:apply-templates select="../node1" mode="node1" /> 
</xsl:template>