Re: [xsl] Fetching the value of a dynamically assigned attribute

["Joseph L. Casale jcasale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xsl-list-
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Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 3:29 AM
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Subject: Re: [xsl] Fetching the value of a dynamically assigned attribute

> Better is <xsl:value-of select="concat('some-text', .)" /> - because the
first
> one will fail if there are multiple text nodes separated by comments. Using
> "." here is equivalent to string(.) which gives you the string-value of the
> element.

Nice, I didn't even realize that.

> These are all syntactically correct, but the one that doesn't work is
> semantically incorrect, because you didn't take context into account.

Thanks everyone,
jlc