RE: [xsl] passing a variable to call-template

["David White" <davidw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to everyone for the quick replies!

Ya, after looking over the FXSL materials my head is spinning.
I'm going to stick with the simple choose statement you mention below.

I have XML which looks like this:
<warning conformance="alert_hand_in_gears">
	<title/>
	<para/>
</warning>

And XSLT:

<xsl:variable name="this.warning">
	<xsl:choose>
		<xsl:when test="string-length($list) = 0">
		<!-- We are done -->
		</xsl:when>
		<xsl:when test="contains($list, ' ')">
		<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($list, ' ')"/>
		</xsl:when>
		<xsl:otherwise>
		<xsl:value-of select="$list"/>
		</xsl:otherwise>
	</xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:if test="string-length($this.warning) &gt; 0">
	<xsl:choose>
		<xsl:when test="$this.warning = 'alert_hand_in_gears'"><xsl:call-template
name="alert_hand_in_gears"/></xsl:when>

		<xsl:otherwise><fo:inline color="red" font-size="6pt" width="38pt"
font-weight="bold">ART NOT FOUND <xsl:value-of
select="$this.warning"/></fo:inline></xsl:otherwise>
		</xsl:choose>

So, I'm hoping to be able to dynamically pull templates based upon the
conformance attribute in the XML.  This.warning is a template that contains
only an SVG.  It would be nice to do this dynamically from the XML but looks
like its just easier to hard code the values.

David White

-----Original Message-----
From: andrew welch [mailto:andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 7:54 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] passing a variable to call-template

On 8/11/06, David White <davidw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is this possible?
>
> <xsl:call-template name="{$this.warning}"/>
>
> I would like to pass a variable into call-template but haven't had any
luck.

No this isn't possible as the name attribute must contain a qname,
which means it must be known at compile time... the usual way is:

<xsl:choose>
  <xsl:when test="$this.warning = 'red'">
    <xsl:call-template name="red"/>
  </xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="$this.warning = 'green'>
    <xsl:call-template name="green"/>

etc... although it's highly likely you can achieve what you are trying
to do another way, maybe post some examples showing your requirements
and see if there's a better solution...

cheers
andrew