> From: Philip Fitzsimons [mailto:pfitzsimons@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 8:09 AM
> Subject:  Dynamic XPath
> 
> 
> I want to create an XSLT expressions so that I can vary which nodes I
> select,
> I can't use [name() = $nodeName] because the depth of the 
> path may change -
> and I want to use paths not nodenames...
> 
> What I would like to do is:
> 	<!--<xsl:variable name="dynamicPath" 
> select="/document/*[position()
> = 2]" />-->
> 	<xsl:variable name="dynamicPath"
> select="/document/section/keep/pear" />
> 	<xsl:variable name="textContent" 
> select="{$dynamicPath}/text()" />
> Which is not valid :( - so how can I create a dynamic path? 
> Is it possible?

It's possible if you remove the curly braces:

<xsl:variable name="textContent" select="$dynamicPath/text()"/>

AVTs are not valid in XPath expressions.

btw, based on your input XML, $textContent is redundant; if you use
$dynamicPath in xsl:value-of, the result will be identical, since value-of
writes the string value of the expression to the result tree.

hth,
b.

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