Subject: xsl:when question - am I doing something stupid or is this a limitation / processor bug? From: David Rigby <D.A.Rigby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 22:25:14 +0100 |
Hi Folks I'm fairly new to XSL, but I've been chucked in at the deep end. I've had good results thus far using XSL to parse xml documents into a nicely formatted report, but now I need to do something a bit cleverer and have hit a problem... I'm trying to write a stylesheet that switches on a runtime defined node to produce HTML pages tailored to a particular product, defined at runtime. I have the following template defined: <xsl:template match="schematics"/> <xsl:variable name="model" select="modelnumber"/> <xsl:variable name="applicableModel" select="documentation\currentModel"/> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="$model=$applicableModel"/> <xsl:apply-templates select="link"/> </xsl:when> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template> (please excuse any typos in the listing...hopefully there aren't any) If I print out the values of the model variable in the document, they are as expected: namely 8800 in one case and 8801 in another. The currentModel node is unique in the tree and is inserted at runtime. In this test case it is 8800 and again is reported correctly if printed in the document. The problem is that the test inside the xsl:when never succeeds. I tried all manner of combinations of @ and $ tokens in desperation and useing test="@model=@applicableModel" succeeds in all cases (presumably because the value of applicableModel is being assigned to model within the test itself..?) but nothing else yields any results, even when we're testing model = 8800 against applicableModel = 8800. I've looked all around for examples of using two variables in an XSL test but can't seem to find any examples: the RHS always seems to include a constant. The XSL specification seems to suggest that it ought to be valid to test one variable against another, so am I doing something wrong or is it a fault in the stylesheet processor? I THINK we're using the lotus processor, although I don't recall off the top of my head since I'm now at home :). Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks David XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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