RE: Traversing nodes and storing a matched value

From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: RE:  Traversing nodes and storing a matched value
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:52:24 +0100

XSLT 1.0 doesn't allow variables to be used in a match pattern.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mat Bergman [mailto:matbergman@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 29 June 2005 19:35
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  Traversing nodes and storing a matched value
>
> This looks like a most elegant solution. One
> head-scratching error occurs when I play with it using
> the MSXML processor:
> Variables may not be used within this expression.
> menu[not(existes = -->$siteID<--)]
>
> When I hard-code the value in place of the variable,
> it works fine. Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Mat