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Re: Variable in XPath...
David Carlisle wrote:
>>The $node_id contains the exact node name.
>>
>
>I suspect you have the wrong model of what's happening.
>
>It's a bit hard to tell as you didn't show th eformat of either of your
>input files, but I guess
>
>config.xml looks like
><config>
><nodename>xxx</nodename>
></config>
>
>if so then $node_id contains a single element node (nodename)
>
>so
>
><xsl:for-each select="$node_id">
>
>will select that node (in config_doc.xml, not any nodes in the original
>document)
>
Ohh!? The $node_id variable contains a "string" (obviously intended as a
single node tree fragment contains a text), not a tree fragment related
to config_doc.xml. Or not?
In every way, the suggested method
<xsl:for-each select="//*[name()=$node_id]">
seems to work. Thank's again.
Alessio Mazzieri
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