scoping inside a select statement

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Subject: scoping inside a select statement
From: S Woodside <sbwoodside@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:45:58 -0500

Why does this DWIM: <xsl:variable name="foobar" select="@name"/> <xsl:value-of select="document('inst.xml')//*[boolean(name() = $foobar)]"/>

and this doesn't: <xsl:value-of select="document('inst.xml')//*[boolean(name() = @name)]"/>

... or perhaps I should say, how do I scope @name inside a select to refer to the @name attribute of the context node outside the select, instead of whatever it's referring to here (... an attribute named @name in the context node inside the select?)

Also if you're wondering about the unnecessary boolean() I've decided to use it for syntactic safety to protect myself from numeric result s;-)

simon

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scoping inside a select statement S Woodside - Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:43:51 -0500 (EST) <= Wes Kubo - Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:29:04 -0500 (EST) S Woodside - Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:55:27 -0500 (EST) Wendell Piez - Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:39:10 -0500 (EST)

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