RE: Variable in template atrribute "match" with Xalan

According to Kay (XSLT Programmer's Reference 2nd Edition; page 445),
id() when used in a match expression is an IdKeyPattern, and takes a
literal.  Assuming this comes from the spec, a variable name is not a
legal value in this case.

Dion

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrey Astakhov [mailto:paranorm@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 1:42 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  Variable in template atrribute "match" with Xalan and
MSXML

Hallo, All!

I have to work with Xalan and MSXML4.

I have such xsl style:


<xsl:param name="pMenuItemID"/>
...
<xsl:template match="id($pMenuItemID)">
...
  <xsl:value-of select="@caption"/> 
...
</xsl:template>
...


It works excelent with Xalan but it doesn't work with MSXML4. I get:
"id($pMenuItemID)' is an invalid XPath expression."

Why so?


Best regards,
Andrey

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