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There's no standard way to construct an XPath expression from a string at run-time in either XSLT 1.0 or 2.0. Some products have an extension to do this, for example saxon:evaluate(). If you want a portable solution, the only way around it is to generate a stylesheet. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Poff [mailto:matt.poff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 20 August 2007 06:58 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Evaluate string as XPATH axis in XSLT1.0? > > Hi, > > I'm trying to resolve a node attribute which contains an > XPATH fragment to actually resolve that path to a value. Is > this possible. > > XML with attribute looks like... > > <grid-map map="./foo[@bar]/select" /> > > > XSLT looks like... > <xsl:variable name="path" select="../grid/grid-map[1]/@map"/> > <xsl:value-of select="{$path}" /> > > Unfortunately, this results in errors... Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance, > Matt
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