Dongling,
At 07:54 PM 8/28/2003, you wrote:
It seems like you can only use the parameter(variable)
in the predicates with XPATH.
This isn't true, and it's puzzling why you draw this conclusion. It's true
that if you want to copy a node, it has to be a node, not a string...
So, I can do this:
<xsl:copy-of select="*[name(.) = $pName]"/>
To copy the orignal element to the output.
Yes, and that's what it sounded like you wanted to do.
Note the expression you provided copies all element *children* of the
context node whose name equals $pName to the result, since "*[name(.) =
$pName]" is an abbreviation for the XPath:
child::*[name(self::node()) = $pName]
If $pName were a node (perhaps from your lookup table) and not a string,
you could certainly copy it, though that isn't what you said you wanted to do.
Cheers,
Wendell
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