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RE: xsl:copy-of
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- Subject: RE: xsl:copy-of
- From: "Selva, Francis" <Francis dot Selva at purchasepro dot com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 13:47:58 -0700
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
Thanx David,It worked.I was all the time thinking whether it's taking the
string or is it looking for the element matching.Now I understood.
Francis
>
> > <xsl:variable name="first" select="John"/>
>
> That declares $first to be the node set matching the pattern John
> and you haven't got any elements <John> so this is the empty node
> set and this coerces to the empty string.
>
> <xsl:variable name="first" select="'John'"/>
> ^ ^
> makes $first the string John.
>
> David
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