You either need to generate the whole stylesheet before you start, or
you need to make extensive use of the xx:evaluate() extension function
(and an XSLT processor that supports it).
Michael Kay
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From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
Richard Lewis
Sent: 29 October 2003 13:09
To: XSL-List(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Making XPath expressions out of variables
This is a theoretical bit of XSL code which I need a
practical version of:
All the variables are passed as parameters to the stylesheet.
<xsl:for-each select="//$record-type">
<xsl:sort select="$sort-by" order="$sort-order" />
<xsl:if test="$lh-operator $operand $rh-operator">
<tr>
<xsl:for-each select="*">
<td><xsl:value-of select="." /></td>
</xsl:for-each>
</tr>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
Any ideas? Is it possible? Or do I need to use this basic
construct multiple
times using <xsl:if> for each variable and the correct names
of nodes and
operands. (The number of permutations is massive!)
Cheers,
Richard
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This is question I was going to ask (it might make things clearer):
Is there a way of selecting nodes which have the name
$some-variable using an
XPath expression?
e.g. <xsl:for-each select="//$some-variable">
would, in theory (though not in practice - I've tried it!),
select all the
nodes whose name is equal to whatever the value of $some-variable is.
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