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RE: find the following sibling of my parent - no way in standard XSLT of constructing an XPath expression
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- Subject: RE: find the following sibling of my parent - no way in standard XSLT of constructing an XPath expression
- From: "Paulo Gaspar" <Paulo dot Gaspar at krankikom dot de>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 18:26:51 +0200
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I have been missing that a bit...
...together with TRUE VARIABLES.
That "looks" simple and would add a lot of power.
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From: owner-xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Kay Michael
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 4:50 PM
To: 'xsl-list@mulberrytech.com'
Subject: RE: find the following sibling of my parent
<xsl:value-of
> select="generate-id($context::following-sibling::*[position()=1])"/>
Others have pointed out the correct syntax here.
> </xsl:attribute>NEXT</xsl:element>
> </xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise>
> <xsl:variable name="newcontext">
> <xsl:value-of select="concat($context,'::parent')"/>
> </xsl:variable>
> <xsl:call-template name="parentnext">
> <xsl:with-param name="context" select="$newcontent"/>
> </xsl:call-template>
> </xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
NO! The parameter passed to parentnext will be a string containing an XPath
expression, it will not be the result of evaluating that expression. There
is no way in standard XSLT of constructing an XPath expression at run-time
and then evaluating it. (There is a Saxon extension to do this, but I'm
fairly sure you don't need it here.)
Mike Kay
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