RE: [xsl] Re: Conditional Processing in XSLT & JS

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

> I have the following evaluation :
> 
> 	<xsl:if test="'{name}' = 'return bpr_name()'">	
> 
> if the contents of 'name' node and the string returned by the 
> javascript function are equal the it will perform the following tasks.
> 
> For some reason or other it is not evaluating the bpr_name function.
> 
> Can anybody give me some hint of what maybe is happening??

It is comparing the string "{name}" to the string "return bpr_name()"
and deciding that they are not equal.

If you want the contents of the node called name, write

  name 

not

  '{name}' 

If you want to evaluate a function called bpr_name, then write

  bpr_name()

not

  'return bpr_name()'

(But the spec doesn't allow you to have a function called this -
user-defined functions must always be namespace-prefixed).

Many people posting questions on this list invent strange language
constructs in the hope that they might mean something, but this is one
of the more creative efforts I have seen recently.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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