Re: Using variables in xpath attribute matches

2008/8/21 David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>:
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>> Am I trying to do something really stupid?
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> Apparently not, as it is one of the more frequently asked questions.
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> What isn't so clear is why people expect this to work this way.
> I don't get the impression that on lists for C or Java or Fortran that
> people expect that they can have expression fragments in strings and
> then just use them inline.
> in C you can't go
> x=1;
> var="x +";
> y= var 1;
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> and expect that y evaluates to 2. ie x + 1 rather than be like "x+"1 (a
> syntax error).

You can in Haskell though (sort of).

Perhaps all XSLT newbies are frustrated Haskel programmers, who want
to use a more widely known language?
:-)