Re: [xsl] variables and calling templates

[Goetz Bock <bock at blacknet dot de>]

On Tue, Oct 02 '01 at 18:06, Chris d'Aquin wrote:
> [ ... variables and named templates ... ]
AFAIK, your variable is only valid in the first template and you must
pass it as a parameter to the named template:


<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:for-each select="//*[@foo]">
    <xsl:variable name="element">
      <xsl:value-of select="name()" />
    </xsl:variable>
    <xsl:if test="@foo='bar'">
      <xsl:call-template="foobar">
        <xsl:with-parameter name="element">
          <xsl:value-of select="$element"/>
        </xsl:with-parameter>
      </xsl:call-template>  
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
 
<xsl:template name="foobar">
  <xsl:param name="element" /> 
[ ... various statements here that use the $element variable set above 
  ... ]
</xsl:template>

note, that your context position remains the same, you could access @foo
or name().

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Goetz Bock                                              IT Consultant
Dipl.-Inf. Univ.

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