RE: dynamic variable name/implementation question

The usual solution is that instead of passing your stylesheet three
parameters x, y, and z, you should pass it an XML document 

<param>
  <x>1</x>
  <y>2</y>
  <z>3</z>
</param>

and then you can navigate this document at will using XPath.

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


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed S [mailto:lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 25 August 2005 19:17
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  dynamic variable name/implementation question
> 
> Hi-
> I'm trying to find a workaround or alternate implementation for a
> particular problem I'm tring to solve.  I have various parameters that
> are passed into the processor, and I would like to use their values in
> the stylesheet.  However, I've found that XSLT 1.0 does not support
> dynamic variables.
> I would like to do the following:
> 
> XML:
> ...
> <text-block>
>    this is some text. Folowing is dynamic- <external-value
> parameter="someParam"/> -preceding was dynamic
> </text-block>
> ...
> 
> XSL:
> ...
> <xsl:template match="external-vaue">
>     <xsl:value-of select="$@parameter"/> <!-- this won't work -->
> </xsl:template>
> ...
> 
> where there is a parameter "someParam" passed into the 
> stylesheet - say
> someParam="foo".  My output would be:
> ...
>  this is some text. Folowing is dynamic- foo -preceding was dynamic
> ...
> 
> Has anybody else ever needed this fuctionality?