Re: [xsl] XPath Expressions inside a variable

["Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin at mitretek dot org>]

[Richard Garcia]

> I am trying to build following element (which works):
>
> <xsl:for-each select="document('mydoc.xml')/FirstSibling">
> <xsl:copy-of select="Row" />
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> I'm trying to parse a information to access a 2nd input document and path.
> My input source (*.xml) looks like this:
>
> <Portlet src="mydoc.xml" path="FirstSibling"/>
>
> I tried:
>
> <xsl:variable name="src" select="Portlet/@src" />
> <xsl:variable name="path" select="Portlet/@path" />
> <xsl:for-each select="document($src)/{$path}">
> <xsl:copy-of select="Row" />
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> But this doesn't work as it doesn't like the data type for $path.  How can
I
> accomplish my desired result?
> Is it possible to do this with just one variable? or no variables?
>

You can't use a variable there, but you can get the desired effect this way:

<xsl:for-each select="document($src)/*[name()=$path]">


Cheers,

Tom P


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