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Hi Paulo, > I'm beginning to use variables to determine criteria for selecting nodes > with > <xsl:for-each select="*[local-name() = $nodename]"/> > > Nevertheless, this doesn't work if '$nodename' is a nodeset with a > condition, for example: > <xsl:variable name="nodename">PEOPLE/PERSON[NAME != 'Carlos']</xsl:variable> In the above variable declaration, the $nodename variable is set to a result tree fragment whose string value is "PEOPLE/PERSON[NAME != 'Carlos']". If you want to set it to contain a node-set, then you should use the select attribute of <xsl:variable>, not its content: <xsl:variable name="nodename" select="PEOPLE/PERSON[NAME != 'Carlos']" /> When you set a variable using the select attribute, the XPath expression held in the select attribute is evaluated and the variable is set to the result. In this case, the $nodename variable to the node-set of <PERSON> elements whose <NAME> element child is not equal to 'Carlos'. On the other hand, when you set a variable using its content, the content is treated as a content constructor; any literal text is used to create a text node, not evaluated as an XPath expression. Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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