Subject: Re: [xsl] Using variables in xpath attribute matches From: "Colin Adams" <colinpauladams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:23:02 +0100 |
2008/8/21 David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>: > > >> Am I trying to do something really stupid? > > Apparently not, as it is one of the more frequently asked questions. > > What isn't so clear is why people expect this to work this way. > I don't get the impression that on lists for C or Java or Fortran that > people expect that they can have expression fragments in strings and > then just use them inline. > in C you can't go > x=1; > var="x +"; > y= var 1; > > and expect that y evaluates to 2. ie x + 1 rather than be like "x+"1 (a > syntax error). You can in Haskell though (sort of). Perhaps all XSLT newbies are frustrated Haskel programmers, who want to use a more widely known language? :-)
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