RE: [xsl] including string of value in xpath-path

Subject: RE: [xsl] including string of value in xpath-path
From: "Passin, Tom" <tpassin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:51:16 -0400
> From: ma.siebeneicher@xxxxxx [mailto:ma.siebeneicher@xxxxxx] 
> 
> i have some problems with an xpath expression. my target is 
> to generate a xpath string including a value from a varible 
> or parameter, evaluate(xpath) and getting some content from 
> node. maybe it will clear after my xsl and xml snippets..
> 
> this is my xsl snippet which should combine the element 
> sitemap and the variable $sitemap-collection-path with the 
> title element by using the
> concat() function.
> 
>   <xsl:parameter name="sitemap-collection-path" select="galley"/>
> 

In addition to Josh Canfield's suggestion, your parameter assignment
above does not select what you seem to want.  It selects all nodes
having the path "galley".  To get the string value "galley", you would
write 

<xsl:parameter name="sitemap-collection-path" select="'galley'"/>

Cheers,

Tom P

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