[xsl] Re: xsl:element name value with Attribute Value Template at run-time

[Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

      <xsl:variable name="elementName" value="foo"/>
      <xsl:element name="{$elementName}">Will this work?</xsl:element>

      The Xalan processor complains that the attribute name is not valid
      because the $elementName variable is blank.

There is no "value" attribute for xsl:variable; check the spec.

There is a "select" attribute, but it is intepreted as an XPath expression,
so select="foo" would be setting the variable to a copy of the child
attribute called foo. However, you could have written an expression that
returns a string value:
      <xsl:variable name="elementName" select="'foo'"/>

But it's probably clearest to write
      <xsl:variable name="elementName"/>foo</xsl:variable>

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Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more.
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