Re: [xsl] Selecting from a node-set using variable path

[S Woodside <sbwoodside@xxxxxxxxx>]

If $mypath is a string, you'll need to use dyn:evaluate from EXSLT or 
whatever equivalent you can find for your interpreter.

if $mypath is a nodeset defined by an XPath, e.g.

<xsl:variable name="myPath" select="a/b/c"/>
then I think you might be able to do something like this:

<xsl:template match="$myNodeSet>
  <xsl:apply-templates select="$myPath"/>
</xsl:template>

in that case it's wonky but xslt doesn't like to have two variables in 
the same xpath AFAICT.

simon

On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 02:35  PM, gary fong wrote:

> For the life of me, I don't know how to do this even
> though it seems like it would be very easy.
>
> I have a variable, myNodeSet, which points to a node set,
> in this case a set of 1 document element node.
> I have another variable, myPath, which reflects a
> (relative) location path to nodes I want to select from
> myNodeSet.
>
> This works:
>  <xsl:variable name="t1" select="$myNodeSet//a/b/c"/>
>
> This doesn't:
>  <xsl:variable name="t2" select="$myNodeSet/$myPath"/>
>
> I'm using MSXML 4.0 and it's complaining with:
>  NodeTest expected here.
>  $myNodeSet/-->$<--myPath
> which makes sense.
>
> How do I filter down my node-set based upon some variable
> location path?
>
> Thanks
> --
> Gary F.
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