RE: How to Display as text the select predicates of a

Well, there aren't many programming languages that allow a program to read
its own source code, but you're in luck, because XSLT is one of them.

<xsl:value-of select="document('')/*/xsl:variable[@name='bool']/@select"/>

should do the trick.

The alternative solution to this problem is to have the search conditions
supplied as a string (for example in a stylesheet parameter or a
configuration file) and to use dyn:evaluate() to turn the string into an
expression that you can evaluate.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: david [mailto:dariggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 20 January 2005 07:08
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  How to Display as text the select predicates 
> of apply-templates
> 
> I am using xslt to search an xml file of resonses to a 
> survey. I want to 
> display the search predicates at the top of the results of 
> the search. 
> How do I get at the text of the search to show what the argument was 
> that produced the result which I am displaying?
> 
> I put the search into a variable at the top of the xslt file:
> 
> <xsl:variable name="bool" 
> select="/responses/response[section/number_sewn &gt; 3]"/>
> 
> 
> And then use it
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates select="$bool">
> 
> 
> I also want to display the search argument on the output, so 
> I know what 
> it was that this output is searching for.
> 
> If I use <xsl:value-of select="$bool"/> I just get the text 
> value of the 
> first element of the selected set. And if I first define the search 
> argument as a string with select="'/responses/...... '" 
> (double-quoting 
> to make it a string, not a node set), I can display that 
> easily enough, 
> but I cannot find a way to make that variable then select a node set.
> 
> Seems so simple, and it is so simple that I cannot find it in the 
> archives. Sorry for such a trivial question.
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> David Riggs
> 
> Kyoto