AW: expression must evaluate to a nodeset / shortcuts

Hi David,

thank you for your explication.

XSLT is a world of convergence, so for somebody might be a FAQ, for others like me coming from designing a interface, it is not so easy to understand. 

Everytime i try to search the archive from this list i got no results, when i restrict the parameters. It would be great, if there could be a uptodate search engine there.

Thanks again,

Hans Braumüller 
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> Is there a workaround for this?

not really. Some systems have an evaluate fextension function to
evaluate a string as an Xpath. But you ask

> Why i can use

but the question is  "why would you expect that" (and others too, you are
not teh first to ask, this is a FAQ)

Most languages have the same restriction.

after

<xsl:variable name="path" select=" '/root/body/filter/df/@name'  "/>


$path is a _string_ containing a bit of XPath syntax.
so

<xsl:value-of select="$path='gspkennung'/@title"/>

is legal but means the same as


<xsl:value-of select="'/root/body/filter/df/@name'='gspkennung'/@title"/>
and tests those two strings.

this is just the same as C or most otehr languages, in C if you have the
string "x + y" you can't easily get from there to the sum of teh
variables x and y unless you write a parser for teh string that maps
that string syntax to the expression language. That's what the
xx:evaluate() function does for you if your system has that extension
(saxon and xalan at least have such an extension)

David


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