Subject: RE: [xsl] Dynamic XPath From: "Philip Fitzsimons" <pfitzsimons@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 15:29:12 +0100 |
Opps <xsl:variable name="dynamicPath" select="'/document/section/keep/pear'" /> i.e. $dynamicPath is a string containing '/document/section/keep/pear' -----Original Message----- From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of G. Ken Holman Sent: 23 May 2003 15:19 To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [xsl] Dynamic XPath At 2003-05-23 15:08 +0100, Philip Fitzsimons wrote: >What I would like to do is: > <!--<xsl:variable name="dynamicPath" >select="/document/*[position() = 2]" />--> > <xsl:variable name="dynamicPath" >select="/document/section/keep/pear" /> > <xsl:variable name="textContent" >select="{$dynamicPath}/text()" /> You are not showing what I would call "a dynamic XPath". Consider: <xsl:variable name="dynamicPath" select="/document/section/keep/pear" /> <xsl:variable name="textContent" select="$dynamicPath/text()" /> I've modified the second instruction above, such that the node-set variable named $dynamicPath, which includes the nodes selected by your XPath expression in the first insturction, is used to address all the text nodes from each. It is very acceptable to begin an XPath expression with a reference to a node-set variable. What did you mean by "dynamic"? ................. Ken -- Upcoming hands-on courses: (registration still open!) - (XSLT/XPath and/or XSL-FO) North America: June 16-20, 2003 G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995) ISBN 0-13-065196-6 Definitive XSLT and XPath ISBN 0-13-140374-5 Definitive XSL-FO ISBN 1-894049-08-X Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath ISBN 1-894049-11-X Practical Formatting Using XSL-FO Member of the XML Guild of Practitioners: http://XMLGuild.info Male Breast Cancer Awareness http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/bc XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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