alternative to msxsl:node-set($variable)

Hi all,

I've been searching all over the place for a way to handle our problem, and
I can't find one.  I hope someone on the list can help.   From what I've
seen, it looks like using "msxsl:node-set($variable)" is what we need, but
our product is stuck with the May 2000 msxml parser, so we can't use it.
We'll upgrade the parser eventually, but we can't do it now...

What we want to do is this:

1. A user clicks on an html link to request something.  Based on which link
was clicked, we store an xpath expression in an xml element node, i.e.


<ActionPath>Challenges/Incontrol/AspectNode/ActionNode[Action/@ID=21]</Actio
nPath>

2. Later, we retrieve that path into a variable and use it in an xpath
expression in order to show what the user wanted to see.

e.g.

			<xsl:variable name="ActionPathVar" select="ActionPath"/>

			<xsl:for-each select="$ActionPathVar">
					[show the stuff the user wanted...]
			</xsl:for-each>


It seems like our problem is that we've got a result tree fragment in our
ActionPathVar when what we need is a node-set.  That much I think I've
figured out from previous posts.  But I haven't found a workaround to this
that doesn't use a node-set() function.

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Thanks a lot.
Paul


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