Stupid question...I never need that...<xsl-valueof>
exists for the same purpose of referring to variables,
and the content will directly become the value of the
variable in a <xsl:variable> tag. Sorry for bothering
you all..

Thanks,
Bharathi

--- bharathi kongara <bharathikongara@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hey guys,
> 
> I've a question: Can we have a <xsl:attribute>
> inside
> a <xsl:variable>?
> 
> I'm trying to do something like this: I've to set a
> variable depending on a condition that if $var1 is
> null or not. If I can directly set the value of
> var1,
> that could have been ideal. Since I cannot reassign
> another value to the variable after it was
> declared/initialized in XSL, I'm trying to do that
> with the following workaround. But I'm not sure if I
> can use an <xsl:attribute> with in the
> <xsl:variable>.
> Again if its possible, is there a way that I can
> assign the values of $var1 or $var2 to prefix,
> because
> with the following piece, the variable will be just
> assigned the word '$var1' or '$var2'.
> 
> <xsl:variable name="prefix">
>              <xsl:choose>
>                 <xsl:when test="$var1">
>                     <xsl:attribute
> name="select">$var1</xsl:attribute>
>                 </xsl:when>
>                 <xsl:otherwise>
>                     <xsl:attribute
> name="select">$var2</xsl:attribute>        
>                 </xsl:otherwise>
>              </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:variable>
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Bharathi
> 
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