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RE: String->LocationPath

Subject: RE: String->LocationPath
From: Mike Brown <mbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 10:38:03 -0700
xslt strip apostrophes from string
Juliane Harbarth wrote:
> I tried to run a stylesheet that inputs a parm and
> interprets the value of it as a location path.
> I.e. 
>  <xsl:param name="query">no-default</xsl:param>

Here, $query is a result tree fragment.
(Not a string, as you assumed).

>  ...
>  <xsl:template name="querytemp">
>   <xsl:apply-templates select="$query"/>

Here, $query must be a node-set.

The only way to make a variable be a node-set is to
put a node-set-selecting XPath expression in the
select attribute of the xsl:param or xsl:variable
element.

> Is there anything I can do except generating the
> stylesheet on the fly ?

You can write an extension function that takes the
string value of a data object and returns a node-set
based on evaluation of the string as an XPath
expression. :)

But no, there's nothing built-in to XSLT that will
let you do what you want.


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