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RE: Dynamic XPath expression (I know it doesnt work in XSLT1.0)

2004-08-26 10:46:59
After some pretty exhaustive searching on the web, I have decided to 
join the list. I have noticed in the archives that more than 
one person 
has had the same issue as I have...how to create an XPath expression 
dynamically (from a variable, etc). The answer to these 
questions was to 
use any of the available *:evaluate functions. I would like to try to 
avoid that, since it increases the parse time so much....and 
that is not 
acceptable.

My question is if there is any other way to accomplish this, 
for example using XSLT2.0. 

Sorry, but this is one feature that we decided not to put in XSLT 2.0. The
only choices are really:

(a) using an xx:evaluate() extension function
(b) modifying the stylesheet before you execute it

I'm not sure why you think there is a performance problem with the extension
function approach?

Michael Kay