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Re: Template Select using a param
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- Subject: Re: Template Select using a param
- From: Richard Jarvis <rjarvis at micromuse dot com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 16:26:39 +0000 (GMT)
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
Hi David,
This seems to be what I need - however, I can't get it to print out any
results.
As I'm quite new to xsl - I was wondering if you could explain what the
statement does exactly - so I can try and work out where I'm going wrong.
Thanks,
Richard
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, David Carlisle wrote:
>
> > I had hoped to use:
> > <xsl:value-of select="<xsl:value-of select="$path"/>"/>
>
> well that wouldn't even reach the xsl system as it is not well formed
> XML and would be rejected by the XMl parser.
>
> You could try
>
> <xsl:value-of select="{$path}"/>"
>
> {} syntax being the replacement for value-of in attributes.
>
> But it doesn't work as value-of (or {} ) return a _string_ not an
> expression.
>
> saxon has an extension function to evaluate an expression
> as a string, but do you need that here?
>
> why can't you make the parameter the node list selected rather than the
> path for selecting it:
>
> <xsl:param name="path" select="
> /test/ROWSET/ROW[@*[name(.)=current()/@id]]/*[name(.)=current()]"/>
>
> (or something like that)
>
> <xsl:value-of select="$path"/>
>
> David
>
>
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