RE: [xsl] XPath question

["Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>]

> 
> <xsl:variable name="keyName"><xsl:value-of 
> select="substring-after(../../ViewKey, ';')"/></xsl:variable>
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates select="//appInfo[ViewName='viewName' 
> and ViewKey=$keyName]/Structure[@StructId='VFM']/Row[@DEPEND='001']" >
> 
> If I use an explicit string in place of $keyName, it works. 
> 

Perhaps the context node at the time of doing the xsl:variable was
different from the context node at the time of xsl:apply-templates?

This isn't the cause of the trouble, but

<xsl:variable name="keyName"><xsl:value-of 
> select="substring-after(../../ViewKey, ';')"/></xsl:variable>

is a grotesquely convoluted (and probably expensive) way of doing

<xsl:variable name="keyName"
   select="substring-after(../../ViewKey, ';')"/>

Michael Kay
Software AG
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