Re: Variable : string or temporary tree

David,
But I can apply / to a temporary tree if version is "1.1" when analyzing
variables, can't I ?
Cheers
Siarhei Biarozkin
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 10:21 AM
Subject: Re:  Variable : string or temporary tree


>
> > What is the best way to find out whether a variable is a string or a
> > tree ?
>
>
> You can't. Well for a variable you can as you just need to look at the
> text of the stylesheet, it never depends on run time behaviour, but for
> a parameter it is not possible to tell without using an extension
> function.
>
> <xsl:variable name="treeTest">
>  <node>
>     <xsl:copy-of select="$cmdRequest"/>
>  </node>
> </xsl:variable>
> <xsl:choose>
>   <xsl:when test="$treeTest/node/node()">
>
>                            ^ that is a syntax error, you can not (in
>                            XSLT 1) apply / to result tree fragment
>                            variables.
>
> David
>
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