Is is possible to build up an XPath expression (as a string) and then use it
with a select or match. For example :-
If the variable $xPath contained the string value '/root/first'
could I do :-
<xsl:copy-of select='$xPath'/>
I have to say from my initial testing this doesn't appear work and copy-of
would just return the string itself not evaluate as an XPath expression, but
I wondered whether there is a way of getting something like this to work ?
What I'm trying to do is compare aspects of one XML instance with another.
There are a lot of comparisons I need to make and I don't really want to
hard code in each individual test's XPath in an 'if' statement. So I was
considering creating templates which match the portions of the document I
want to compare and from that context recursing through matching each node
found with the corresponding structure in the other doc :-
Doc 1 Doc 2
==== ====
... ...
<Employees> <Employees>
<Employee> <Employee>
<FName>Fraser</FName> <-- OK --> <FName>Fraser</FName>
<LName>Goffin</LName> <-- OK --> <LName>Goffin</LName>
</Employee>
</Employee>
<Employee> <Employee>
<FName>Luke</FName> <-- MISMATCH --> <FName>Marie</FName>
<LName>Goffin</LName> <-- MISMATCH --> <LName>Smith</LName>
</Employee> </Employee>
... ...
</Employees> </Employees>
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