RE: [xsl] FW: How to store a node in a local variable using if or when

[ohmson@xxxxxxxxxxxx (ohmson ampere)]

I don't know...maybe this:

<xsl:variable name="node">
    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="condition1">
            <xsl:copy-of select="/a/b/c"/>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="condition2">
            <xsl:copy-of select="/c"/>
        </xsl:when>
    </xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>

ohmson

Néstor Boscán <nestor.boscan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi
>
>I would like to process information from a node that can come from two
>different places in the XML tree. Because the processing is the same I
>create a variable and with a choice element I will set the variable to
>one of the two nodes. So I can figure out only two ways of doing it that
>doesn't work. Here are the two examples:
>
>First example use <xsl:value-of>:
>
><xsl:variable name="node"/>
>    <xsl:choose>
>        <xsl:when test="condition1">
>            <xsl:value-of select="/a/b/c"/>
>        </xsl:when>
>        <xsl:when test="condition2">
>            <xsl:value-of select="/c"/>
>        </xsl:when>
>    </xsl:choose>
></xsl:variable>
>
><xsl:for-each select="$node">
>    process
></xsl:for-each>
>
>Will not work because <xsl:value-of> only selects strings not nodes. So
><xsl:variable name="node" select="path"/> is not the same as
><xsl:variable name="node"><xsl:value-of select="path"/></xsl:variable>
>
>Second example use "select" attribute in variable:
>
><xsl:choose>
>    <xsl:when test="condition1">
>        <xsl:variable name="node"  select="/a/b/c"/>
>    </xsl:when>
>    <xsl:when test="condition2">
>        <xsl:variable name="node"  select="/c"/>
>    </xsl:when>
></xsl:choose>
></xsl:variable>
>
><xsl:for-each select="$node">
>    process
></xsl:for-each>
>
>Will not work because variable "node" is out of scope.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>
>
> XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
>
>

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