RE: [xsl] RE: Parameter not working in contains() function

["Lars Huttar" <lars_huttar@xxxxxxx>]

> I'm using JavaScript on a web page to pass parameters (user 
> input) to an XSL file. The parameters are global. I'm trying 
> to use them in this for-each statement:
> 
> <xsl:for-each select="doclist/doc[contains($param1,$param2)]">
> 
> $param1 comes from a dropdown list on the web page and will 
> always be one of the children of doc. If I manually replace 
> $param1 with one possible value, the XSL works (i.e., 
> <xsl:for-each select="doclist/doc[contains(title,$param2)]">. 
> 
> But when I use the $param1 as the first argument in the 
> contains function, I get no results.

This is because $param1 presumably contains a string, namely 'title',
and so what you're getting is
 <xsl:for-each select="doclist/doc[contains('title',$param2)]">.

One way to do what you're trying to do would be
 <xsl:for-each select="doclist/doc[contains(*[local-name()=$param1],$param2)]">. 

I think that should work.

Lars


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