RE: [xsl] Accessing a node dynamically using XSL

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In XSLT 2.0 you want to do something like:

<xsl:for-each select="
    for $name in tokenize(Subjects, ',\s*')
    return *[name() = $name]">
  ...
</xsl:for-each>

Tokenizing a string is a bit more difficult in 1.0, but you can use
str:tokenize() in EXSLT.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sumiit Kumar Mukherjee [mailto:sumit.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 16 January 2006 15:52
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Accessing a node dynamically using XSL
> 
> I have an XML which is of the format:
> 
> <Name type="String">harry</Name>
> <Subjects type="String">Literature,Fiction</Subjects>
> <Literature type="String">Shakespeare, Woodsworth, Jeffrey 
> Archer</Literature>
> <Fiction type="String">Da Vinci Code</Fiction>
> 
> My requirement is like this: First, find out the values in the
> <Subjects> element. For each such value [separated by a comma], there
> will be an element present in the XML [in this case, Literature and
> Fiction]. I need to get the values for each of these elements in turn.
> How can this be done in XSL? In short, I am looking for a dynamic way
> of accessing elements based on the XML itself. I require this because
> I have not idea about the values that might be present under the
> <Subjects> element.
> 
> Thanks