RE: [xsl] dynamic variable name/implementation question

["Mike Schinkel" <mikes@xxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>IOW, can an XSLT processor generate and XSLT file and then launch
>>>>another transform recursively?
>>Not by itself, generally, no, but a framework like Ant can help you do
this.It would s

Sadly, I thought that was the case.

<Vent>It would seem like this would be such a common need I've always
thought that was an big omission on the part of the design of XSLT,
especially since it's a recursive concept and XML/XSLT is so recursive
by nature.</Vent>

-Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 5:33 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [xsl] dynamic variable name/implementation question

At 04:31 PM 8/25/2005, Mike S wrote:
>It is possible to do that without having to manually trigger the
>process of both, or to have to write a program in another language to
do that?
>

Also, some processors, like Saxon, have an evaluate() function to
perform dynamic evaluation of arbitrary strings.

Cheers,
Wendell


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