Getting parent's parent from current node in Xpath 2.0

Question

I always seem to have trouble with xpath axis expressions...

In some expressions I have used ../ to refer to the parent node, but is that not valid for test expressions? Or is my syntax just wrong?

<xsl:when test="../../[@status='current']">

My goal is to apply an attribute inside the xsl:when IF the parent's parent has a status attribute with a value of 'current'.

EDIT: self::parent/parent[@status='current'] is a valid xpath expression and may be what I want, can anyone confirm? I might not be going far enough.

Solution 1

The problem is in /[. You can change it to

../../self::*[@status='current']

Solution 2

A simpler solution than those from choroba and Hansen is

../..[@status='current']

Solution 3

You could also use the following:

parent::*/parent::*[@status='current']

Solution 4

With Xpath 2.0:

 ../../@status eq 'current'

With XPath 1.0 and XPath 2.0:

 ../../@status = 'current'

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