RE: Dynamic XPath

Or to be more obvious:
	<xsl:variable
name="dynamicPath">/document/section/keep/pear</xsl:variable>
Basically I want to be able to change the path from one node to another, for
example
	<xsl:variable name="dynamicPath"><xsl:copy-of
select="//configuration/searchPath" /></xsl:variable>

Which then changes the result of   <xsl:variable name="textContent"
select="{$dynamicPath}/text()" />

i.e. I want the parser to process the {$dynamicPath} and replace it with a
literal string and then excute the search, in effect
	 <xsl:variable name="textContent"
select="/document/section/keep/pear/text()" />

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Subject: Re:  Dynamic XPath


At 2003-05-23 15:08 +0100, Philip Fitzsimons wrote:
>What I would like to do is:
>         <!--<xsl:variable name="dynamicPath" 
>select="/document/*[position() = 2]" />-->
>         <xsl:variable name="dynamicPath" 
>select="/document/section/keep/pear" />
>         <xsl:variable name="textContent" 
>select="{$dynamicPath}/text()" />

You are not showing what I would call "a dynamic XPath".  Consider:

         <xsl:variable name="dynamicPath"
                      select="/document/section/keep/pear" />
         <xsl:variable name="textContent" select="$dynamicPath/text()" />

I've modified the second instruction above, such that the node-set variable 
named $dynamicPath, which includes the nodes selected by your XPath 
expression in the first insturction, is used to address all the text nodes 
from each.

It is very acceptable to begin an XPath expression with a reference to a 
node-set variable.

What did you mean by "dynamic"?

................. Ken

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