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Selecting a Nodes Parent or Siblings

The .. is often combined with the attribute axis to find the attribute of the parent node (../@name). You can use an asterisk as a wildcard within the path. For example, /*/A would select all the A elements of all of the siblings of the current node. File: Data.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <employee>   <name language="English">T1</name>   <name language="Latin">T2</name>   <projects>     <project>project1</project>     <project>destruction</project>     <project>medicine</project>   </projects>   <weight>3 points</weight> </employee> File: Transform.xslt <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"   version="1.0">   <xsl:template match="projects">     <ul>       <xsl:value-of select="../name[@language='English']" />       <xsl:for-each select="project">         <li>           <xsl:value-of select="." />         </li>       </xsl:for-each>     </ul>   </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Output: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>   T1   T2   <ul>T1<li>project1</li><li>destruction</li><li>       medicine      </li></ul>   3 points