RE: [xsl] String evaluation problem

["Nathan Young \(natyoung\)" <natyoung@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's hard to tell from the info you give, but this may be another use
case for a design pattern that's come up a few times recently.

If what you need to do is create a map of values that gets substituted
in, you can load values from an external document (or the current XSL)
using the document function.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>

<xsl:variable name="dictionary" select="document('values.xml')"/>

<xsl:template ...
  <xsl variable name="key-name"
select="concat(substring('continue(1)',1,8),substring('continue(1))"/>
  <xsl:value-of select="$dictionary//$key-name"/>

... <snip>


Where the file values.xml might contain

<root>
   <continue1>general explanations</continue1>
   <continue2>... etc.</continue2>
</root>


Is that helpful?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fadi Qutaishat [mailto:fadi_taher2000@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 4:07 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] String evaluation problem
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> I know that is the direct way is to have
> <test>&continue1;</test> to reference the entity but
> the logic that I've got generates continue(n)formate
> and it can't be changed and that's whay I have tried
> out the things using the indirect way substrings
> function.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Fadi
>
>
>
>
>
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