[xsl] "Dynamic" Variables in XSL

[Ronald Kent Gibson <Kent.Gibson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

ear All

What I want to do is create a large number of variables, all with unique
names, I extract these names from an xml file each time I transfrom it with
my stylsheet. The varaible names comes from the parent node and the values
from an attribute of the child. 

After I construct this variable I will need to access it somehow, ie
$varaible, or key() or anything like this. 

I have experimented with key(), and trying to make dynamic variable and/or
parameter names with no luck. The only thing I have not tried is to
add nodes to the xml doc and then read them. I really do not want to write
to the XML document though.

The source below makes the following output:

name="nameA_begin" select="x"
name="nameB_begin" select="y"

The idea was to make a <xsl:variable name="nameA_begin" select="x/>
statment.

Does anyone have any clever ideas?


       <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0">	
	<xsl:output method="text" encoding="Windows-1252" />	
	<xsl:template name="page" match = "/">		
		<xsl:for-each select="//token">			
			<xsl:text>name="</xsl:text>			
			<xsl:value-of select="name(parent::*)"/>

			<xsl:text>_begin</xsl:text>			
			<xsl:text>"</xsl:text>			
			<xsl:text> select="</xsl:text>			
			<xsl:value-of select="@bmacro"/>

			<xsl:text>"</xsl:text>			
			<xsl:text>&#xA;</xsl:text>		
		</xsl:for-each >	
	</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
	<nameA>      
		<token bmacro    = "x">      </token>
	</nameA>
	<nameB>      
		<token  bmacro    = "y">      </token>
	</nameB>
</root>

thanks a bunch,

kent


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