Thanks! I opted for XPath and that worked exactly as I needed it.
On 21/04/15 15:22, Michael Kay mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com wrote:
Just use
<xsl:variable name="date" select="$element/date"/>
The way you are doing it, you are creating a temporary document to hold a copy
of the date element. The variable is a document node, and document nodes have
no name.
I would need the $date to be the same node as $date2 (I want to use a
"xsl:choose" in the $date variable).
Either use XPath if() instead:
<xsl:variable name="date" select="if (X) then $element/date else
$something.else"/>
Or use xsl:sequence and an @as attribute
<xsl:variable name="date" as="element(date)">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="X">
<xsl;sequence select="$element/date"/>
</xsl:when>
....
</xsl:variable>
Michael Kay
Saxonica
mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com
+44 (0) 118 946 5893
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