Yes, this code does work as is, but when I pass in a parameter from
ASP it returns this error:

msxml4.dll error '80004005'

Reference to variable or parameter 'filter' must evaluate to a node list.

/lead/filter.asp, line 60


On Fri, 28 May 2004 09:59:35 +0100, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
>   XSL:
>   <xsl:param name="filter" select="//person[contains(FName,'a') and
>   LName='Brown']"/>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="/">
>           <xsl:apply-templates select="$filter"/>  (this is what does not work,
>   some parsers offer a evaluate function to convert a string to XPath
>   but not MSXML)
>   </xsl:template>
> 
> 
> That does not require an extension function, it is just standard XSLT
> and should work as is.
> 
> David
> 
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