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Re: Re: Capturing/testing results of a boolean express

Subject: Re: Re: Capturing/testing results of a boolean expression.
From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 19:06:50 -0600 (MDT)
xsl when test boolean
Edward L. Knoll wrote:
> I have a variable which will have a string value.  I wish to compare
> that string value to another string value (which happens to be a literal
> value).  I've done this directly in a xsl:if or xsl:when before, but now
> I'm trying to capture the results of the expression in a variable.
> 
> <xsl:variable name="X" ..../>
> 
> <xsl:variable name="flag" select="$X = 'literal-string-value'" />

That does in fact do exactly what you want.

Wherever that flag variable is in scope, it is a boolean object
and you can use $flag in an XPath expression as such.

You will need to post more details of how this is not doing what
you expect. What type of object is $X, for example?

   - Mike
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