Re: Template Select using a param

OK, cool.

What I'm trying to do is this:

I'm performing an SQL query to generate a ROWSET.
I then want to display the results of this in a table.
I have XML saying which columns to include.

So I generate the correct number of columns using this xml and give them
the right headers.

Then I want to go through the rows in the rowset and for each row display
only the values of the children which are specified in the earlier xml.

So as i process the rows, i re-process the fields xml for each row,
passing in the current rows id.

So when i loop through the fields I want to say - for current row output
the values of the children with the names specified in the fields.xml.

When processing these fields i have $id - the row number and value-of .
which is the field I need to pick out.
And I want to display the value of that field within that row.

It's probably not the best way of doing it - but it seemed pretty simple
when I set out...

Thanks,

Richard




On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, David Carlisle wrote:

> 
> >  I was wondering if you could explain what the
> > statement does exactly - so I can try and work out where I'm going wrong.
> 
> well it wasn't a very exact statement because I wasn't clear from your
> posting what exactly you want to do.
> 
> you wrote
> 
> /test/ROWSET/ROW/@<xsl:value-of select="$id"/>/<xsl:value-of select="."/>
> 
> but even ignoring the fact that this is generating a string not an
> expression the result if $id was 'this' and the current node had value
> 'that' would be
> 
> test/ROWSET/ROW/@this/that
> 
> which would try to select a `that' child of a `this' attribute which
> doesn't make sense,
> so I assumed you wanted
> 
> test/ROWSET/ROW[@this]/that
> 
> which would be a `that' child of a ROW which had a `this' attribute
> (with any value).
> 
> But I'm not at all sure if that is really what you do want, or why it
> needs to be in a parameter. 
> 
> Perhaps you should just say at a higher level what you want to do, and 
> then someone can suggest some xsl.
> 
> David
> 
> 
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