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RE: Navigating through the document using variables

2005-05-30 17:07:58
I have a variable initialized at runtime with the path to some element
(something like this /elem1/elem2/elem3). Can I use this variable to
navigate to the elem3 in another variable that is initialized with the
document like this:
<xsl:variable name="doc" select="document('./somedocument.xml')"/>

In other words I would like to use this string to retrieve a node-set from
the document, something like this:
        $emps[$ref]

The short answer, no, not natively. See http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/nono.html#d1625e507

That said, there are limited ways to achieve this, using local-name(); using a dynamic-dispatch mechanism, etc.

--A

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