Thanks to Joerg and John and all others, works fine.

Homer30

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On 28.01.2003 at 20:20 Joerg Heinicke wrote:

>Hello Hubert,
>
>you have two errors in your code:
>
>Hubert Holtz wrote:
>> Hy,
>> 
>> first of all I know there is this <i18n> thing to make multilanguage
>sites, but that's not the topic.
>> 
>> I have enabled xslt-with-parameter in my sitemap, in my xsl file i have
>a global parameter 'lang' this is the parameter which should
>> contain the value of the equal url-parameter, so far so good.
>> 
>> Now I want to output text fragments in 2 languages, depending on this
>parameter, so I thought of sth. like this:
>> 
>> -- code --
>> 
>> <xsl:if test="($lang)='1' ">
>>     <xsl:variable name="stadt" select="Stadt"/>
>>      <xsl:variable name="Texteingabe" select="Hier Text eingeben"/>
>>     <xsl:variable name="berichtstatus" select="aktuell"/>
>> </xsl:if>
>> 
>> <xsl:if test="($lang)='2' ">
>>     <xsl:variable name="stadt" select="city"/>
>>     <xsl:variable name="Texteingabe" select="Please enter text"/>
>>     <xsl:variable name="berichtstatus" select="current"/>
>> </xsl:if>
>
>The variables are out of scope. In scope means they are only used in 
>descendants of its parent. So outside your <xsl:if/> they are out of scope.
>
>Change it to:
>
><xsl:variable name="stadt">
>   <xsl:if test="$lang=1">city</xsl:if>
></xsl:variable>
>
>With this approach you don't make the second error.
><xsl:variable name="stadt" select="city"/> means, that you are searching 
>for the text value of a child node with name 'city'. But you want a 
>string, which must be written as select="'city'"/>.
>
>With my above solution you have a result tree fragment in your variable, 
>that is converted into a string when using <xsl:value-of select="$stadt"/>.
>
>Regards,
>
>Joerg
>
>> <td><xsl:value-of select="$stadt"/></td>
>> 
>> -- code --
>> 
>> 
>> But I get an error message, that there is no 'stadt' variable, if I
>delete the <xsl.if> part then there is no error message, but then I can't
>change the
>> value of the variable depending on the 'lang' paramter, of course.
>> 
>> So could it be that variables can't be set in an if statement and if
>that's true what would be the solution?
>> 
>> 
>> thanks
>> Homer30
>
>
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