Re: [xsl] [string to node]

[Aditya Sakhuja <aditya.sakhuja@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ah! :) Thanks david about that insight on exslt.

Thanks everyone for the inputs.

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:43 PM, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 22/02/2010 00:17, Aditya Sakhuja wrote:
>>
>> So, I have thought of<xsl:variable name="a" select="..."/> B to get the
>> value. however, I have to choose depending upon certain conditions,
>> and hence the<xsl:choose>
>
> Usually (or at least often) you can express the condition in xpath rather
> than xsl:choose, and so still use the select.
>
>> inside. Also, exsl:node-set() library is
>>
>> not complete (http://exslt.org/exsl/index.html). If you download this,
>> the node-set xsl is missing. I had looked at this option earlier.
>
> no, you misunderstand how the node-set extension is implemented.
> You do not download any code it is built in to to the processor
> xslt 1 implementations which support this (which is almost all of them)
> build in the node-set extension, you just need to declare the namespace to
> access the function.
>
>
>>
>> However, I have just managed to get what I need working using the
>> inherent, xalan:nodeset() which comes bundled with the Xalan-C
>> processor.
>
> xalan:nodeset and exslt;node-set will be teh same function, it's just more
> portanble to call it exslt node-set.
>
> David
>



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