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Re: [xsl] can't get variable content after call-template

2006-06-26 02:17:03

<xsl:template name="logfile">
   <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="@pmode='multi'">

This isn't using a variable at all, did you mean $pmode here rather than
@pmode?

Assuming you did mean $pmode then the variable is not in scope at this
poiunt, if a template depends on a variable it must be declared as a
parameter of that template and explictly passed in when the template is
called.

<xsl:template name="logfile">
  <xsl;param name="pmode"/>
...

and

   <xsl:call-template name="logfile">
    <xsl:with-param name="pmode" select="$pmode"/>

Incidentally it's much better to go


   <xsl:variable name="pmode" select="'multi'"/>

which defines $pmode as a string, than to go

   <xsl:variable name="pmode">multi</xsl:variable>

which defines $pmode to be a document node with single child a text node
with string value "multi", as the document node is more expensive to
build and more expensive to coerce back to a string.

It seems like the variable declaration in the initial template is not
recognized, 
Variables in XSLT have lexical scope, they are only usable in the
following sibling elements (and their descendants) of the xsl:variable element
on which they are defined.

David


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