RE: [xsl] passing in path names of nodes as parameters?

[Charu Anchlia <charu at Stanford dot EDU>]

> > so on the command line i say,
> >
> > java **parser -param nodeparent /A/B

Mike Kay wrote:

> You are passing in a string "/A/B". There's no way the processor can know
> that you are thinking of this as an XPath expression. If you want to
> evaluate it as an XPath expression, you will need the evaluate() extension
> function, e.g.
>
> for-each select="xx:evaluate($nodeparent)/*

Hi,
This doesn't work. I used xalan extension function evaluate and my code
said

for-each select="xalan:evaluate($nodeparent)/*"

The error I get is 'cannot convert #string to a node list'.

I am specifying the parameter like so:
java ***parser -param nodeparent "'Aa/Bb'"

Even when I put the /* as part of the parameter like

java ***parser -param nodeparent "'Aa/Bb/*'" and in the
for-each select="xalan:evaluate($nodeparent)"

it doesnt work either!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Many thanks,
Charu.



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