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    copied!<p>I have the following XML file:</p> <pre><code>&lt;phonebook&gt; &lt;departments&gt; &lt;department id="1" parent="" title="Rabit Hole" address="" email="" index=""/&gt; &lt;department id="2" parent="" title="Big Pond" address="" email="" index=""/&gt; &lt;/departments&gt; &lt;employees&gt; &lt;employee id="1" fname="Daffy" lname="Duck" title="Admin" email="daffy.duck@example.com" department="2" room="" /&gt; &lt;employee id="2" fname="Bugs" lname="Bunny" title="Programmer" email="bugs.bunny@example.com" department="1" room="" /&gt; &lt;/employees&gt; &lt;/phonebook&gt; </code></pre> <p>When displaying it, I want to show the contact details for an employee as well as the title of the department where he works. Here's what I've got in the template:</p> <pre><code>&lt;xsl:for-each select="phonebook/employees/employee"&gt; &lt;xsl:sort select="@lname" /&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;span class="lname"&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="@lname"/&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;xsl:text&gt; &lt;/xsl:text&gt; &lt;span class="fname"&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="@fname"/&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="@title"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;xsl:value-of select="/phonebook/departments/department[@id='{@department}']/@title"/&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:{@email}"&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="@email"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/xsl:for-each&gt; </code></pre> <p>The problem is that the following rule doesn't seem to work:</p> <pre><code>&lt;xsl:value-of select="/phonebook/departments/department[@id='{@department}']/@title"/&gt; </code></pre> <p>I guess this is because the XSLT engine looks for the <code>department</code> property in the <code>department</code> element, and not in the <code>employee</code> element. However, I don't have an idea how to fix it. Could anyone give me a hint on that?</p>
 

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