Re: [xsl] How do I pass the mode as a string?

["Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 03.03.2020 um 12:21 schrieb Kerry, Richard richard.kerry@xxxxxxxx:
> Normally I would specify apply-template's mode as a literal, eg:
> <x:apply-templates mode="inputs" />
>
> I have a number of instances of similar code which need to have
> different modes, eg:
> <x:apply-templates mode="outputs" />
>
> I'd like to extract all of this into a separate block that I will call
> with these two values.
>
> <x:variable name="match-mode" >inputs</x:variable>
> <x:apply-templates mode="$match-mode" />
>
> Doesn't work.  Saxon reports:
> Static error at x:apply-templates on line 47 column 74 of xxx.xsl:
>    XTSE0020: Mode name {$match-mode} is not a valid QName

> So, I've tried a few options but I suspect there's something important
> I'm missing about QNames and the mode attribute.
> Please can someone advise.

The only option do do have in XSLT 3 to set a mode dynamically is to use
a static parameter or variable and a shadow attribute so if you have a
top level

<xsl:param name="match-mode" static="yes" as="xs:string" select="'inputs'"/>

then you can use a shadow attribute _mode

<xsl:apply-templates _mode="{$match-mode}"/>

Of course this only helps if you want to set that parameter before
running the complete XSLT.