RE: [xsl] variable question

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Is there some obvious reason why the "title-before" variable below
> doesn't work when called from within a template?

By "doesn't work" I assume you mean "has a different effect from what I
expect", but you haven't said what you expect the effect to be.

The most likely cause is that at the point you declare the variable reftype,
the context node does not have a mods:related item child. But you haven't
given any information about the context.

Michael Kay

>
> I'm not sure if the problem is that there's something wrong with the
> way I'm trying to use variables, or something about the
> context and the
> xpath expressions (my guess is the latter).
>
> Bruce
>
> <xsl:variable name="reftype">
>    <xsl:choose>
>      <xsl:when test="not[mods:relatedItem[@type='host']]">
>        <xsl:text>book</xsl:text>
>      </xsl:when>
>      <xsl:when
>
> test="mods:relatedItem[@type='host']/mods:originInfo/mods:
> issuance='continuing'">
>        <xsl:text>article</xsl:text>
>      </xsl:when>
>      <xsl:when
>
> test="mods:relatedItem[@type='host']/mods:originInfo/mods:
> issuance='monographic'">
>        <xsl:text>chapter</xsl:text>
>      </xsl:when>
>    </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:variable>
>
> <xsl:variable name="title-before">
>    <xsl:choose>
>      <xsl:when test="$reftype='chapter'">
>        <xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
>      </xsl:when>
>      <xsl:otherwise>
>        <xsl:text></xsl:text>
>      </xsl:otherwise>
>    </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:variable>