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Thanks Michael, Yes, I'm dealing with poorly formed XML output from a program I have no control over changing. As you can imagine its a baptism of fire for me learning how to format this nasty XML! Thanks again for your help this time and previously. Cheers, Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, 7 January 2005 8:58 PM > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: Selecting an attribute value from a variable > > Variables hold values, not XPath expressions. > > Many processors have a dyn:evaluate() extension that allows > you to construct and evaluate an XPath expression > dynamically, but you don't need it here. > > Use > > @*[name()=$var] > > Incidentally, it's poor practice to represent information by > means of a sub-syntax within element and attribute names. You > should be using child elements of the form > > <LastId Page="1">12</LastId> > > But we all sometimes need to deal with badly-designed XML. > > Michael Kay > http://www.saxonica.com/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris Hicks [mailto:chrish2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: 07 January 2005 09:19 > > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Selecting an attribute value from a variable > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm building a variable in xslt like this: > > > > <xsl:variable name="previouspagelastid" > > select="concat('@Page',string(@pageNumber - 1),'LastID')"/> > > > > To refer to an attribute in an xml node that I know exists > > (@Page1LastID for example). > > > > The root node of my template match looks like this: > > > > <results pageNumber="2" pageCount="3" pageSize="10" resultCount="30" > > criteria="" Page1LastID="12" Page2LastID="" Page3LastID="" > > Page4LastID="" > > Page5LastID="" Page6LastID=""> > > > > I'm not sure if its possible but after I declare this > variable I want > > to get its value, ie. "12" > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Chris
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