RE: [xsl] Key/Use

Subject: RE: [xsl] Key/Use
From: Kevin_Gutch@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:46:09 -0400
Mr. Kay,

Excuse my ignorance but, why is this

 <xsl:key name="lookup" match="row"
 use="concat($TRANSFORMER_SourceCountry,'_layer_name')"/>

 any more useless than?:

 <xsl:key name="lookup" match="row" use="US_layer_name"/>

All I actually want to do is  pass in a parameter from a servlet and use a
dynamic key value to be used in a XSLT LookUp Table. Everything works I
just want to use a dynamic lookup table so I do not have to have more than
one lookup table. So basically US could be BG(Great Britian),CN(Canada)
etc.







                                                                                                         
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> Is this code legal? I do not receive any errors but it will
> not work. It
> works fine however, if I insert the a value without concat. I
> know that the
> output of the Concat is correct because I have used it elsewhere.
>

It is legal but useless. You are indexing each row on the concatenation of
the value of the global variable $TRANSFORMER_SourceCountry (which is the
same for each row), and the literal '_layer_name' (which is also the same
for each row). Therefore every row has the same key value.

Mike Kay
>
>
> <xsl:key name="lookup" match="row"
> use="concat($TRANSFORMER_SourceCountry,'
> _layer_name')"/>
>
>
>
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