RE: Variable construction

> I have a piece of text containing a variable. The variable is a url
> specified in an external document...

You mean your source document contains $helpUrl and you want to replace it
with the value of the variable $helpUrl defined in your stylesheet?

Sounds a reasonable thing to do - except that the scope of a variable name
is confined to certain parts of the stylesheet, and doesn't extend to the
source document. At run-time there is no way of getting the value of a
variable whose name you've just read from the source document.

You might as well use any symbolic name in the source document, for example
href="%%helpUrl%%", and in the stylesheet you will need some kind of lookup
mechanism of the form

<xsl:when test="@href='%%helpURL%%'">
  <xsl:attribute
name="href">http://info.uwe.ac.uk/myuwe/myMarks.asp</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:when>

But perhaps I've completely misunderstood what you are trying to do.

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


> 
> The text...
> 
> .....If you have any queries, please contact your <a target="_blank"
> href="{$helpUrl}">Faculty Office</a> without delay....
> 
> How should I construct the variable so as to output the url? 
> Can I do it as
> xsl:text?
> 
> The variable...
> 
> <xsl:variable name="helpUrl">
>       <xsl:text>http://info.uwe.ac.uk/myuwe/myMarks.asp</xsl:text>
> </xsl:variable>
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> Aaron
> 
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> Aaron Johnson
> GUI / XSLT development
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