RE: find the following sibling of my parent - no way in standard XSLT of constructing an XPath expression

["Paulo Gaspar" <Paulo dot Gaspar at krankikom dot de>]

I have been missing that a bit...
...together with TRUE VARIABLES.

That "looks" simple and would add a lot of power.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Kay Michael
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 4:50 PM
To: 'xsl-list@mulberrytech.com'
Subject: RE: find the following sibling of my parent


<xsl:value-of
> select="generate-id($context::following-sibling::*[position()=1])"/>

Others have pointed out the correct syntax here.

> </xsl:attribute>NEXT</xsl:element>
>         </xsl:when>
> 	    <xsl:otherwise>
>                 <xsl:variable name="newcontext">
>                 <xsl:value-of select="concat($context,'::parent')"/>
>                 </xsl:variable>
>                 <xsl:call-template name="parentnext">
>                 <xsl:with-param name="context" select="$newcontent"/>
>                 </xsl:call-template>
>         </xsl:otherwise>
>         </xsl:choose>

NO! The parameter passed to parentnext will be a string containing an XPath
expression, it will not be the result of evaluating that expression. There
is no way in standard XSLT of constructing an XPath expression at run-time
and then evaluating it. (There is a Saxon extension to do this, but I'm
fairly sure you don't need it here.)

Mike Kay


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