RE: Retriving attribute value using variable.

Use select="@*[name()=$var]"

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arulraj [mailto:p_arulraj(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com] 
> Sent: 22 August 2005 07:04
> To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
> Subject: Re: [xsl] Retriving attribute value using variable.
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks for reply.
> My requirement is different. I have a some string in
> searchAttribute like attribute1 or attribute2 or any
> string. 
>
> I have to use that string as attribute selection in
> XSL. 
>
> <xsl:variable
> name="searchAttribute">attribute1</xsl:variable>
>
> (or)
>
> <xsl:variable
> name="searchAttribute">attribute2</xsl:variable>
>
> Here searchAttribute value comes as a string.
>
>
> Regards,
> Arul
> --- "watchstone(_at_)netzero(_dot_)com" <watchstone(_at_)netzero(_dot_)com>
> wrote:
>
> > <xsl:variable name="searchAttribute"
> > select="values/@attribute1"/>
> >
> >
> > -- Arulraj <p_arulraj(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it possible to use xsl variable in the 
> > <xsl:value-of select=""/>
> >
> > I am having the following XML.
> >
> > XML:
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> > <landcodecombo>
> > <values attribute1="IN" attribute2="INDIEN"/>
> > </landcodecombo>
> >
> > XSL:
> > <xsl:for-each select="landcodecombo">
> >     <xsl:variable
> > name="searchAttribute">attribute1</xsl:variable> 
> >     <xsl:for-each select="values">
> >     <xsl:value-of
> > select="concat('@',$searchAttribute)"/>
> >     </xsl:for-each>
> > </xsl:for-each>
> >
> > I need the output like.
> > IN
> >
> > But i am getting the output 
> > @attribute1
> >
> > Is it possible to get the value of "attribute1"
> > using
> > variable.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Arul
> >
> >
> >             
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