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Re: the nearest ancestor with the attribute
> Actually isn't it
>
> ancestor::*[@attr][1]/@attr
yes, although usually people want to do this to get "inherited" values,
in which case,it wants to be:
ancestor-or-self::*[@attr][1]/@attr
or
(ancestor-or-self::*/@attr)[last()]
which coincidentally is exactly the same length (for this attribute
name).
David
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