[Yue Ma]
This could be a dumb question:
Is there a way we can evaluate a dynamic XPath like:
<xsl:if test="$tagPath = 'actual value'">
The tagPath is something like "//root/tag1/tag2"
Seems we can not do it with XSLT 1.0, right?
Yes we can, depending on how complicated you want the path expression to
be. Here is an example -
XML source -
<root>
<e1>This is e1</e1>
<e2>This is e2</e2>
</root>
=========================
Stylesheet -
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<!-- Path to test against -->
<xsl:variable name='tagPath' select='"/root/e2"'/>
<xsl:template match="/root/*">
<!-- Create a variable to hold a current path expression -->
<!-- Standard expression to create a string for the path of the
current node --> <xsl:variable name='path'>
/<xsl:for-each select="ancestor::*">
<xsl:value-of select="name()"
/>/</xsl:for-each><xsl:value-of select = "name()" />
</xsl:variable>
<!-- Test the expression -->
<xsl:if test='normalize-space($path)=$tagPath'>Got path for
<xsl:value-of select='name()'/></xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Cheers,
Tom P
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