Re: <xsl:if test="@attribute=$varValue">

Philippe,

Given an XML source of:

<foo attr="bar"/>

A stylesheet of:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
 <xsl:template match="foo">
   <xsl:variable name="varValue0" select="bar"/>
   <xsl:variable name="varValue1" select="'bar'"/>
   <xsl:variable name="varValue2">bar</xsl:variable>
   <xsl:if test="@attr = $varValue0">
     attr = varvalue0
   </xsl:if>
   <xsl:if test="@attr = $varValue1">
     attr = varvalue1
   </xsl:if>
   <xsl:if test="@attr = $varValue2">
     attr = varvalue2
   </xsl:if>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Produces

     attr = varvalue1
     attr = varvalue2

NOTE
----

  (1) attr does *NOT* match $varValue0 since
      the variable was set equal to an empty
      nodeset when select="bar" did not find
      any children elements named "bar".

  (2) There are two ways to get a string value
      assigned to a variable:

        <!-- Note the single quotes around 'string' -->
        <xsl:variable name="x" select="'string'"/>
        <xsl:variable name="y">string</xsl:variable>


Hopefully this example will help see what might
be different with your case.

_________________________________________________________
Steve Muench, Consulting Product Manager & XML Evangelist
Business Components for Java Development Team

----- Original Message -----
From: "Philippe Vijghen" <Philippe.Vijghen@xxxxxxxx>
To: <xalan-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 4:37 AM
Subject: RE: <xsl:if test="@attribute=$varValue">


Using <xsl:value-of> in my simplified example was a mistake.
The issue is related to tests, such as in <xsl:if>.

I could not solve the issue and had to implement a work-around
in my stylesheet.

Le'ts rephrase it:

<xsl:if select="@attribute='myVarValue'">hello</xsl:if>

...is working perfectely and perform the expected test
on the attribute value.

However

<xsl:template name="tmplName">
<xsl:param name="varValue">myVarValue</varValue>
<xsl:if select="@attribute=$varValue">hello</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

...is not working:
the test is never considered as 'true'
although I verified that both the $varValue parameter
and the attribute are correctely initiliazed to 'myVarValue'.

Philippe



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Muench [mailto:smuench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: lundi 14 fivrier 2000 18:52
> To: xalan-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: <xsl:if test="@attribute=$varValue">
>
>
> |            <xsl:template name="tmplName">
> |            <xsl:param name="varValue">myVarValue</varValue>
> |            <xsl:value-of select="@attribute={$varValue}">
> |            </xsl:template>
>
> The title of the mail says:
>
>    <xsl:if test="@attribute=$varValue"/>
>
> but in the body of the mail, it says:
>
>    <xsl:value-of select="@attribute=$varValue"/>

...

> Could this be the problem?

...



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