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"." changes its meaning inside square brackets. Try [@name=current()]. Regards, Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ http://twitter.com/michaelhkay > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Lewis [mailto:richard.lewis@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 08 July 2009 18:31 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Using outer context node inside for-each > > Hi there, > > Here is an abstraction of my problem template: > > <xsl:template match="record"> > <xsl:param name="show-fields" /> > <xsl:variable name="this" select="." /> > > <xsl:for-each select="str:tokenize($show-fields)"> > <xsl:message><xsl:value-of select="$this/field[@name=.]" > /></xsl:message> > </xsl:for-each> > </xsl:template> > > So <record> elements have child elements called <field> which > each have a @name attribute. > > The given template should accept a parameter which is a list > of field names, and emit an <xsl:message> of each <field> > element whose @name is in that list. > > I'm pretty sure that using the $this variable as a node set > isn't the problem, because the following works fine: > > <xsl:message><xsl:value-of > select="$this/field[@name='some-field']" /></xsl:message> > > I'm also pretty sure that the current node (.) inside the > for-each is the field name from the list. But I'm pretty > certain that the problem is something to do with testing > @name against . in that XPath predicate. > > I'm using libxslt 1.1.24 (and its str:tokenize implementation). > > Any ideas? > -- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Richard Lewis > ISMS, Computing > Goldsmiths, University of London > Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 > Skype: richardjlewis > JID: ironchicken@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/ > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > +-------------------------------------------------------+ > |Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.| > |http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html | > +-------------------------------------------------------+
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