Re: [xsl] constructing a "variable" select argument

["Tracey Zellmann" <tracey.zellmann@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks very much for your help.

I have tried, but still can't get it to work for the Track. The position and 
Histogram attributes are perfect.

I have the luxury of also conrtolling the source xml document, so, after 
seeing how relatively easy it was to get  the attribute values to work, I 
have changed the design so that the Track is also an attribute. I have gone 
through all the progarms and structures and accomplished that (Thank 
goodness for global edit and replace functions). Now I can cleanly redesign 
the templates.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 6:14 PM
Subject: RE: [xsl] constructing a "variable" select argument


> > I have this statement:
> > <xsl:copy-of select="/Report/TrackT1/Position[@position='Left
> > Front']/MCHistogram[@id='1']/svg:svg"/>
> >
> > However, the TrackT1 part of the expression can also change -
> > to TrackT2,
> > TrackT3, Track5-18, etc, taking on various values.
>
> /Report/*[name()=$param]/Position
>
> if the variation is more than a change of name then in XSLT you can invoke 
> a
> function here:
>
> /Report/f:find-track(., $param)/Position
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/