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RE: [xsl] Evaluate string as XPATH axis in XSLT1.0?

2007-08-20 01:38:47
There's no standard way to construct an XPath expression from a string at
run-time in either XSLT 1.0 or 2.0. 

Some products have an extension to do this, for example saxon:evaluate().

If you want a portable solution, the only way around it is to generate a
stylesheet.

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Poff [mailto:matt(_dot_)poff(_at_)headfirst(_dot_)co(_dot_)nz] 
Sent: 20 August 2007 06:58
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Evaluate string as XPATH axis in XSLT1.0?

Hi,

I'm trying to resolve a node attribute which contains an 
XPATH fragment to actually resolve that path to a value. Is 
this possible.

XML with attribute looks like...

    <grid-map map="./foo[(_at_)bar]/select" />


XSLT looks like...
<xsl:variable name="path" select="../grid/grid-map[1]/@map"/>
<xsl:value-of select="{$path}" />

Unfortunately, this results in errors... Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Matt

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