RE: xsl:include href attribute

> Can someone help me out as to where I am going wrong
> here? I am trying to use a var as the value of the
> href attribute of xsl:include.

You have said where you are going wrong: you are trying to do something
the language does not allow. <xsl:include> is expanded at compile time,
long before the values of variables are known.

Now tell us what problem you were trying to solve.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> <!-- change to real URL when moving to production --> 
> <xsl:variable name="includePath" 
> select="'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/dir/'" /> <xsl:variable 
> name="getFileInfoPath" 
> select="concat($includePath,'common/getFileInfo.xsl')"
> />
> 
> <!-- get the xml file's name and parent directory:
> $FileName, $FileDir -->
> <xsl:include href="{$getFileInfoPath}" />
> 
> However, when I try to parse an xml doc, for some
> reason, Saxon is trying to use the base url and tack
> on the var, so it ends up trying to find the included
> xslt at e:\wwwroot\dir\{$getFileInfoPath} instead of
> expanding the var and going to 
> 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/dir/common/getFileInfo> .xsl'
> 
> If I 
> hard-code the URI in there as 
> 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/dir/common/getFileInfo.xsl,'
> it finds it perfectly fine.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> [I am a digester, so a cc is appreciated.]
> 
> --n
> 
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