RE: [xsl] an Xpath question - $tag/$subtag

Subject: RE: [xsl] an Xpath question - $tag/$subtag
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 09:35:07 +0100
> Which is, as Ken pointed out, an error. You can't use a 
> variable directly on the right hand side of /.
> 
> In my defence I'll point out that the above is true (I think) 
> in Xpath 2 draft.
> 

Yes, $v1/$v2 is legal in XPath 2.0 provided $v1 and $v2 are both of type
node()* (i.e., node-set, in 1.0 terminology). It's not a very useful
expression, because the result doesn't depend on the value of $v1, but
like $n*0, it's legal.

But this user was after dyn:evaluate(concat( $v1, "/", $v2 )) which is
something quite different, and is NOT available in XPath 2.0.

Michael Kay


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