RE: [xsl] Urgent-how to select node descent of a node

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

> I try to get some value of nodes at: 
> /html/body/blockquote/div[1]/table/tr/td/font and 
> /html/body/blockquote/div[2]/table/tr/td/font
> /html/body/blockquote/div[3]/table/tr/td/font
> 
> $beginpath/*[name()=$tag][position()=$index]//$endpath
> 
> but evidenly it doesnt run.
> 

Variables in XSLT are not macros. They represent values, not bits of
XPath expression text. You can't construct an XPath expression from
string variables, except by use of extension functions such as
saxon:evaluate() (which almost certainly isn't needed here.)

Michael Kay
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