I'm having trouble with variable binding - basically, I read
that variable
bindings declared in templates should be visible to descendants and
following siblings, but I'm getting not getting the behavior
I thought I
would with my stylesheet using Saxon 6.5.2...
You've misunderstood the rules. The scope of variables is static, not
dynamic. It doesn't depend on your source document, and it doesn't
depend on the way in which templates call each other. You're trying to
reference a variable in one template that's declared in a different
template. What you need to do is pass the value as a parameter from one
template to the other, using xsl:with-param and xsl:param.
Michael Kay
so the relevant part of my file looks like this (it's a
subbranch of s):
<ng of='proteins' role='h'>
<nx head='targeting' role='h'>
<W index='92'>the</W>
<W role='h' index='93'>targeting</W>
</nx>
<W index='94'>of</W>
<nx head='proteins' role='k'>
<W index='95'>the</W>
<W index='96'>myosin</W>
<W role='h' index='97'>proteins</W>
</nx>
</ng>
and my stylesheet looks like this:
<xsl:template match="@* | * | comment() | processing-instruction() |
node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="s//ng//*[1]" priority="5">
<xsl:variable name="branch">right</xsl:variable>
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:attribute name="branch"><xsl:value-of
select="$branch"/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="s//ng//*" priority="4">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:attribute name="branch"><xsl:value-of
select="$branch"/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
but when I try to run it, it tells me that the variable
branch has not
been declared, even though it should first have processed the first
daughter of ng, where it has been declared.
Best,
shipra
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