saving a node in a variable

[Natalie Rooney <nrooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have the follwing xsl:


<xsl:for-each select="//BADUSER">

    stuff

<xsl:for-each select="//NEWUSER/*">
      <xsl:variable name="tagName"><xsl:value-of
select="name()"/></xsl:variable>
      <TR>
       <TD width="136" bgcolor="#FFCC00">
                <xsl:apply-templates
select="//DISPLAYNAMES/*[name()=$tagName]"/>
        </TD>

       <TD width="376" bgcolor="#99CC33"><xsl:value-of select="."/></TD>

       <TD bgcolor="#FFCC00">   SCORE FOR BADUSER ATTRIBUTE       </TD>
       <TD width="376" bgcolor="#99CC33">  BADUSER ATTRIBUTE
</TD>

      </TR>
 </xsl:for-each>
  </TABLE>
  </p>
</xsl:for-each>


This is basically a comparison of two users (a bad one and a new one),
each of which have several attributes (the attributes of the bad user
have the same names as those of the new one).  The attributes
are child nodes, such as:

<NEWUSER>
     <FIRSTNAME> </FIRSTNAME>
     <LASTNAME> </LASTNAME>
    etc...

</NEWUSER>

My problem is this:  I want to do a side-by-side comparison of
attributes.  So, in the first two columns
I display the attribute names and the values of the new user's
attributes.  Then in the third column, I want to display the score of
the same attribute for the BADUSER.  And in the fourth column, I display
the value of that attribute for the BADUSER.  So, it looks like this:


Name of attribute     Value of attribute            Score of same
attribute              value of attribute for
                                                                     for
the baduser compared           BADUSER

against the new user

First Name:              Bob
100%                                       Bob
Last Name:              Clark
70%                                       Clarkson


So, I don't quite know how to fill in the last two columns.  If I were
only doing this for one baduser, I would
use:

<xsl:value-of select="//BADUSER[1]/*[name()=$tagName]/@score"/>

for the SCORE OF THE BADUSER

and

<xsl:value-of select="//BADUSER[1]/*[name()=$tagName]"/>

for the BADUSER ATTRIBUTE.  The filter [name()=$tagName] makes sure it
matches the same attribute that was displayed for the new user.

But, I want this to be done using an <xsl:foreach select="//BADUSER"/>
(there are 3 badusers).  Is there any way to assign a node set to a
variable, so that I could do something like:


<xsl:for-each select="//BADUSER">
<xsl:variable name="badNode" select= [current node]/>

stuff

<xsl:for-each select="//NEWUSER/*">
<xsl:variable name="tagName"><xsl:value-of
select="name()"/></xsl:variable>

stuff

<TD><xsl:value-of select="$badNode/*[name()=$tagName]/@score"/></TD>
<TD><xsl:value-of select="$badNode/*[name()=$tagName]"/></TD>

</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>




Note that the baduser selections have to be done inside the
<xsl:for-each select="//NEWUSER/*">
loop, becuase the attributes have to line up.


Any ideas?  Could this be done using keys?  Help will be greatly
appreciated.


Thanks,
Natalie











 XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list