RE: Variable value and functions

[Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>]

> I want to get the value of a variable whose name is equal to the value
> of the "id" attribute found in the current node.

You can't. There is no way in XSLT of constructing XPath expressions (e.g.
variable references) at run-time.

There's a workaround in Saxon, the saxon:expression() function:

 <xsl:value-of select="saxon:expression(concat('$', @id))"/>

Mike Kay


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