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RE: Evaluatable XPath. ( XPath extensions ).
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- Subject: RE: Evaluatable XPath. ( XPath extensions ).
- From: Kay Michael <Michael dot Kay at icl dot com>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 10:09:55 +0100
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
> One of the extensions I want to have is ability to calculate parts
> of Xpath on the fly. I see it like:
>
> /some/{$calculated}/node
> 3. In case (2) is true - could somebody suggest a better
> syntax for this extension?
Saxon allows any string to be treated as an XPath expression and evaluated
using e.g.
saxon:evaluate(concat("/some/", $calculated, "/node"));
Mike K
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