[xsl] Re: Saving entire xml-Structures in a single variable

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev at yahoo dot com>]

Hi Roman,

Use:

<xsl:variable name="someName" select="$your_xform_instance/*"/>

>From your message it is not clear where the "xform:instance" element is and it's
context, and this is why I can't specify the exact XPath expression to it.

Supposing that it is defined as a (single) child of your xsl:stylesheet, then the
above variable definition could be written more precisely as:

<xsl:variable name="someName" select="document('')/*/xform:instance/*"/>


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.

Roman Huditsch wrote:

Hi there!

I'm working currently on a project which relies very much on the new
XForms- WD in combination with XSL. There is an element in the
XForms-Syntax called "xform:instance", which holds an entire
XML-structure.

EX.: 

<xform:instance>
	<data>
		<name/>
		<lastname/>
		<tel.number/>
		<birthdate>
			<day/>
			<month/>
			<year/>
		</birthdate>
	</data>
</xform:instance>

Ok, my problem now is that I would like to take this structure between
the <instance>- Tags und store it in a variable within my stylesheet.
But I can't think of a way to give out the contained element-names. 
The content of the variable should at the end look like this: 

$i
{<data><name/><lastname/><tel.number/><birthdate><day/><month/><year/></
birthdate></data> }

I tried it with a simple <xsl:copy-of select="......"> but this command
just gives me the text-content back, which is in that case null.

Could you please help me??

Yours,
Roman
 



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