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xpath query in an attribute
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- Subject: [xsl] xpath query in an attribute
- From: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit dot hu>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:32:01 +0200
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Hi,
I'm new to XSL, and I'm not sure whether I did something wrong or xalan (the
xslt engine I use is buggy).
So I want to run an XPath query I extracted from an attribute in the XML
document.
Here's what I did:
<xsl:variable name="query" select="@select"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$query"/>
The first statement extracts the select attribute from the current node, and
the second _should_ run the query in $query, and return the accompanying
node-set. The problem is that it doesn't, it displays the value of the query
itself.
My question is: how to execute string variables as XPath queries? Any help
welcome.
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Bazsi
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