Re: [xsl] Using outer context node inside for-each

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

Richard Lewis wrote:

> Here is an abstraction of my problem template:
>
>  <xsl:template match="record">
>    <xsl:param name="show-fields" />
>    <xsl:variable name="this" select="." />
>
>    <xsl:for-each select="str:tokenize($show-fields)">
>      <xsl:message><xsl:value-of select="$this/field[@name=.]" /></xsl:message>
>    </xsl:for-each>
>  </xsl:template>
>
> So <record> elements have child elements called <field> which each
> have a @name attribute.
>
> The given template should accept a parameter which is a list of field
> names, and emit an <xsl:message> of each <field> element whose @name
> is in that list.

Your textual description sounds as if you want
  <xsl:for-each select="field[@name = str:tokenize($show-fields)]">
    <xsl:message>
      <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </xsl:message>
  </xsl:for-each>


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