The basic answer is that standard XSLT does not allow you to construct an
XPath expression dynamically from a string. It's a common requirement and
several processors provide extensions (saxon:evaluate, dyn:evaluate) that
handle it - but some do not.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Yaswanth Kumar Ravella
[mailto:yaswanth(_dot_)mtrx(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: 22 August 2007 09:16
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Linking Variable to the Path
Hi,
::I am having an XML file like this ::
<root>
<every>
<event name="Ready"/>
</every>
<pattern>
<connection destination="//every[1]/event[1]" />
</pattern>
</root>
-------------------------------
::When my XSL file has this code::
<xsl:template match="root">
<xsl:variable name="dest" select="//every[1]/event[1]"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$dest/@name"/>
</xsl:template>
It prints 'Ready'.
Here I am directly assigning variable 'dest' to the path of the event.
This is ok.
-------------------------------
::When I changed my XSL code to ::
<xsl:template match="root">
<xsl:variable name="dest"
select="//pattern[1]/connection[1]/@destination"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$dest/@name"/>
</xsl:template>
It doesn't print 'Ready' or anything.
Here I am storing variable 'dest' with the value of the
'connection/@destination', Which I expected to work properly
but it is not working.
------------------------------
How can I print 'event-name' using 'connection-destination'?
Regards
Yaswanth Ravella
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