RE: Dynamically selecting Attributes

[Oliver Becker <obecker at informatik dot hu-berlin dot de>]

Hi Jeff,

> I'm trying to select an attribute dynamically based on another attributes'
> value.  For example, given:
> 
>   <find target="name" />
> 
>   <record id="100" name="something" location="somewhere" />
> 
> I would like to be able to return the value of the attribute in <record>
> that is named by the target attribute in the <find> element - the above
> example would return "something" (since <find>'s target attribute specifies
> "name" whose value in the <record> element is "something")

<xsl:variable name="target" select="find/@target" />
<xsl:value-of select="record/@*[name()=$target]" />

Cheers,
Oliver


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