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Re: [xsl] Providing a value for the 'select' attribute

2011-10-03 16:49:41
At 2011-10-03 14:38 -0700, Mark wrote:
Because all the variables I had constructed using the select="some text" idiom seemed to have no value when accessed, I adopted the text node approach. I'll go back and look at my old code now to see if there was another reason for the value-setting failure.

<xsl:param name="abc" select="def"/> assigns the value of the child <def>, which will be empty if there is no child, and does not return an error since you are asking for something correctly.

<xsl:param name="abc" select="'def'"/> assigns the string "def".

A common mistake and I make it myself.

. . . . . . Ken


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