RE: Does XSL support an eval?

Not in standard XSLT, but the Saxon extension function saxon:evaluate() does
this.

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From: JamesW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:JamesW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 01 May 2000 17:23
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Does XSL support an eval?



Folks, 

Is there a way in XSL to take an XPath query described in a parameter or
variable, and reference this parameter in the select attribute of say,
xsl:for-each to iterate through the node set described by the query. 

ie. 

<xsl:variable name="myPath" select="'/my/XPath/@query'"/> 
<xsl:for-each select="{$myPath}"> 
        ... 
</xsl:for-each> 

We were under the impression that using the curly braces might achieve this,
but haven't had any luck so far. 

Regards, 
James W.


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