RE: [xsl] Lookup (?)

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Like the other guy who asked about evaluating a path expression passed as a
parameter, the answer is the xx:evaluate() extension function.

I might mention that the XSL WG has decided against including the evaluate()
function in the core function library for XSLT 2.0. Despite its obvious
usefulness, a majority of the group felt that implementors should not be
obliged to provide it, since it can greatly increase the difficulty (and
reduce the performance) of an XSLT compiler.

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx
work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kurt George
> Gjerde
> Sent: 18 February 2002 11:47
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Lookup (?)
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible in xslt to get hold of the content (value) of
> a node which
> path is contained in an attribute of another node??
>
> I have an xml file like this:
>
> <!-- this is a quick-and-dirty xml-form thing (not xforms)
>      just as an example -->
>
> <imb>
>   <form>
>     <input ref="//data/user/firstname">
>       <caption>First name</caption>
>     </input>
>     <input ref="//data/user/lastname">
>       <caption>Last name</caption>
>     </input>
>   </form>
>
>   <data>
>     <user>
>       <firstname>Jix</firstname>
>       <lastname>Jacoby</lastname>
>     </user>
>   </data>
> </imb>
>
> Which needs to come out as something like this:
>
>   <p>
>     First name: <input name="//data/user/firstname" value="Jix"/>
>   </p><p>
>     Last name: <input name="//data/user/lastname" value="Jacoby"/>
>   </p>
>
> Haven't found any way of doing this. Is it possible with XSLT
> or by using
> some Saxon extensions?
>
>
> Thanks,
> -Kurt.
> __________
> kurt george gjerde <kurt.gjerde@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> intermedia uib, university of bergen
>
> use Perl;
>
>
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