Re: tree fragments in variable?!

Jan Mendling wrote:
> Hello XSLTies,
> when I use something like this:
> <xsl:variable name="header">
>   <tr>
>   <th>Element</th>
>   <th>Description</th>
>   </tr>
> </xsl:variable>
> Is there a way to address certain nodes with XPath-like "$header/*" for example? When trying this, it seemed that the content is stored like a string in the variable. Though, when I used xsl:value-of the tags had been eliminated.

The variable-binding element with content created a "result tree fragment"
which is a special type of node-set that cannot be addressed into and can only
be used as a string. However, all XSLT processors come with an extension
function that converts a result tree fragment to a node-set.

Here's a demonstration of one way to use them semi-generically:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3df07962%241_3%40omega.dimensional.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain

Mike

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