Re: [xsl] Number comparison vs. string comparison

Subject: Re: [xsl] Number comparison vs. string comparison
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:50:22 +0100
> Am I doing something wrong ?

> xsl.selectSingleNode("//xsl:variable[0]/@select/").value = somevariable;

This is using the DOM to modify the stylesheet, it is more natural to
declare the variable using <xsl:param rather than <xsl:variable and then
just pass in the parameter using teh functions provided.


But I would guess taht what you are doing wrong is modifying the
stylesheet so that it says

<xsl:variable name="var" select="xxx" />

but that sets $var to the result of selecting the Xpath xxx ie the value
of the xxx element node.

What you want is
<xsl:variable name="var" select="'xxx'" />
                                 ^   ^
which sets var to the string xxx

David

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