RE: [xsl] Variable in template atrribute "match" with Xalan and MSXML

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have to work with Xalan and MSXML4.
>
> I have such xsl style:
>
>
> <xsl:param name="pMenuItemID"/>
> ...
> <xsl:template match="id($pMenuItemID)">
> ...
>   <xsl:value-of select="@caption"/>
> ...
> </xsl:template>
> ...
>
>
> It works excelent with Xalan but it doesn't work with MSXML4.
> I get: "id($pMenuItemID)' is an invalid XPath expression."
>
A match pattern in xsl:template is not allowed to contain a variable
reference. MSXML4 is right to reject it, though it seems to be a very odd
error message to produce.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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