Re: [xsl] using parameters in a select (in the invoice example)

[Ray Allis <ray.allis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

lwong@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Ok.  What are people doing to get around not being able to use variable
> references in the match statement?
>
> Thanks,
> Leah

Is THAT why this nifty example doesn't work?

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:transform [
<!ENTITY css SYSTEM "invoice.css">
]>
<xsl:transform xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0">
<!-- invoice.xsl, v1.0
Written by Christopher R. Maden, Lexica LLC
crism@xxxxxxxxxx -->
<!-- This stylesheet takes an invoice with a series of billable
periods, and produces an invoice in HTML for one particular
period, itemized by project and billing rate.

[ ... ]

<!-- Get the end date of the last period. -->
<xsl:variable name="temp-date"
select="/billable/period[last()]/@end"/>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
1000 analogy /export/home/ray/tomcat/logs:

XSL Error: pattern = '$temp-date'
VariableReference given for variable out of context or without definition!  Name = temp-date, source tree node: #document
XSL Error: pattern = '/billable/period[@end=$period-end-date]'
Could not get variable named period-end-date
XSL Error: pattern = '$period/@start'
Could not get variable named period
XSL Error: pattern = '$period-start-date'
Could not get variable named period-start-date
XSL Error: SAX Exception



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