When the XSLT processor can't tell you anything better than "Unknown
error", then it's time to try it on a different processor. If nothing
else, you're likely to get better diagnostics.

There's nothing wrong with your xsl:variable, though the trailing "/."
is redundant.

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Vivek Shinde
> Sent: 02 September 2003 19:03
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Unknown error in Xpath
> 
> 
> Team,
> I have a xsl stylesheet that has a template with following statements:
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
> 	<xsl:output method="html"/>
> 	<xsl:template match="/newsletter">
> ..
> ..
> ..
> <xsl:variable name="classification" 
> select="normalize-space(metadata/article-classification/.)"/>
> <xsl:if test="contains($classification,'News')">
> 
> When I run the stylesheet with an XML file, I get following error:
> 
> got an exception....Unknown error in Xpath
> ; SystemID: file:..... Line#: 365; Column#: 98
> Line 365 is the <xsl:variable....> line.
> If I run it without this statement, it runs fine. I don't see 
> any obvious error in that statement. Any clues? 
> Thanks
> Vivek
> 
> 
> 
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