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Couldn't he do: <xsl:for-each select="($var1 | $var2 | $var3 | $var4 | $var5)"> ... </xsl:for-each> ? -- David B. Bitton david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.codenoevil.com Code Made Fresh DailyT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dion Houston" <dionh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 7:50 PM Subject: RE: concat variable names > Hi Michael: > > Variable names are constant, so you can't create them dynamically in the > way you describe. I would recommend something like this: > > <xsl:variable name="mySettings.tf"> > <Setting Name="var_1">value_of_var1</Setting> > <Setting Name="var_2">value_of_var2</Setting> > <Setting Name="var_3">value_of_var3</Setting> > <Setting Name="var_4">value_of_var4</Setting> > </xsl:variable> > <xsl:variable name="mySettings" > select="msxsl:node-set($mySettings.tf)"/> > > (replace msxl:node-set() with your preferred nodeset from tree fragment > function) > > You can then replace references to $var_x with > $mySettings/Setting[@Name='var_1'], and to get all the values, simply > get all $mySettings/Setting. > > HTH! > > Dion > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Auth [mailto:michael.auth@xxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 4:24 PM > To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: concat variable names > > > Is there a way to concat the name of a variable? > > I have 5 variables $var_1, $var_2, ..., $var_5; all declared as global > variables. > I want to use this varibles in a loop, something like this: > > loop (count from 1 to 5, store the counter in a variable called > $counter) > <xsl:variable name="newvar" select="$(concat('var_', $counter))"/> > > > What I want to get, is that the variable $newvar stores the value of > $var_1 and in the next run the value of $var2, and so on up to $var_5. > > It does not work (of course) with the method above, but is there a way > it will work??? > (It seems to me that this is a general problem in XSL, for I have other > projects where it would be very usefully too). > > Thanks! > > > > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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