Re: Newbie: See if a node exists!

no, it shows the entire string.
it probably can not be done
thanks any way

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Heinicke
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Subject: Re:  Newbie: See if a node exists!

Ah, you want to evaluate the XPATH expression, which is written in the @name attribute. Normally this is not possible with XSLT, you need an extension function. But your problem seems to be easier - if I understand it correctly:

<BLOCK title="{@*[name() = BOOK/Author/@name}">

Does this work?

Joerg

Americo Albuquerque (E-mail) wrote:

ok, but it's passed as text who do i convert it to an argument?

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Heinicke

One last question. is there a way to get the value of an attribute from
another?
i.e., <BLOCK title="{BOOK/Author@name}">
would get the value of BOOK/Author@name instead of the string
"{BOOK/Author@name}"
This doesn't work, but is there a way to do this?

Of course you need a slash more: <BLOCK title="{BOOK/Author/@name}">

Regards,

Joerg