Subject: Re: combining two variables to generate XPATH
From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 21:36:43 -0800 (PST)
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"Robert Koberg" <rob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ADECJLDNBFNBOJBLKCMOKEFPDMAA.rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi bix,
>
> I think everyone is getting caught up in your explicit question :)
and not
> understanding what you want, or perhaps I am missing something...
>
> Based on previous examples:
> concat($node,'/',$type,'/item') -- assuming $type is the name of an
element
> select="'someBranch'" -- assuming 'someBranch' is the name of an
element
>
> this is very simple to solve in XSLT 1.0, as I posted earlier:
>
> <xsl:template name="foo">
> <xsl:param name="node"/>
> <xsl:param name="branch" select="'someBranch'"/>
> <xsl:for-each select="$node/*[name()=$branch]/leaf">
> <xsl:value-of select="@id" />
> </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
>
> best,
> -Rob
This is what I advised him to do in one of the newsgroups about a week
ago. But obviously this person has some other requirements.
How long will need 1000 people to guess?
>From my empirical observations more than 50% of the messages and time
taken goes in clarifying the formulation of a problem -- some never get
explained well.
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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
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