Hi
I would like to process information from a node that can come from two
different places in the XML tree. Because the processing is the same I
create a variable and with a choice element I will set the variable to
one of the two nodes. So I can figure out only two ways of doing it that
doesn't work. Here are the two examples:
First example use <xsl:value-of>:
<xsl:variable name="node"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="condition1">
<xsl:value-of select="/a/b/c"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="condition2">
<xsl:value-of select="/c"/>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:for-each select="$node">
process
</xsl:for-each>
Will not work because <xsl:value-of> only selects strings not nodes. So
<xsl:variable name="node" select="path"/> is not the same as
<xsl:variable name="node"><xsl:value-of select="path"/></xsl:variable>
Second example use "select" attribute in variable:
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="condition1">
<xsl:variable name="node" select="/a/b/c"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="condition2">
<xsl:variable name="node" select="/c"/>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:for-each select="$node">
process
</xsl:for-each>
Will not work because variable "node" is out of scope.
Any ideas?
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