RE: Selecting from a node-set using variable path

> From: S Woodside [mailto:sbwoodside@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 6:54 PM
> Subject: Re:  Selecting from a node-set using variable path
> 
> 
> If $mypath is a string, you'll need to use dyn:evaluate from EXSLT or 
> whatever equivalent you can find for your interpreter.
> 
> if $mypath is a nodeset defined by an XPath, e.g.
> 
> <xsl:variable name="myPath" select="a/b/c"/>
> then I think you might be able to do something like this:
> 
> <xsl:template match="$myNodeSet>
>    <xsl:apply-templates select="$myPath"/>
> </xsl:template>

You can't use a VariableReference in a match pattern in xsl:template.  You
could, however, define myNodeSet and use it in a select expression:

<xsl:apply-templates select="$myNodeSet"/>

then you would need a set of templates matching the possible values of
$myNodeSet, then apply templates again using $myPath as you have here.
($myPath would either have to be defined globally or passed as a param.)

cheers,
b.

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