Re: Using a variable to check to see if that element exists

Laura:

At 03:52 PM 2/7/00 -0600, you wrote:

>I am trying to use the variable myKey to check to see if it's value (ie.
>"currencyCode") is an element in another document.
>I am having some problems.  does anyone know what is wrong with this xsl.
...
>Here is my xsl template::
><xsl:template match="object">
>     <xsl:for-each select="property">
>          <xsl:variable name="myKey" select="key"/>
>          <xsl:if test="$myKey='currencyCode'">
>               This works; try the next if
>               <xsl:if test="document('en_US.xml')/locale/$myKey">
>                    insert label
>               </xsl:if>
>          </xsl:if>
>
>           </xsl:for-each>
>  </xsl:template>

This looks like another of the "a string is not a node" variety of
slip-ups. The value of the assigned variable is a string. It can't be used
directly to select a node.

Inside your location path, try our old friend, *[local-name() = $myKey] to
match "each element whose local name is equal to the string $myKey" and see
how that works....

--Wendell Piez


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