You haven't shown us a source document. Does the Attribute element have a
child element called AUDIT_COLUMN? Perhaps you meant to write
select="'AUDIT_COLUMN'"?

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/



> -----Original Message-----
> From: lotoole [mailto:lotoole@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 03 March 2005 17:20
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Problem setting variable from xsl:call-template
> 
> I am having a problem setting a variable value with the 
> results of a template
> call.  I would like to pass a string value to a template and 
> receive back a
> string or nothing, then evaluate this value later for further 
> conditional
> processing.  I can see from my output listing that my 
> template can detect the
> string patterns, but I am not setting the variable value on return.  
> 
> I am using ant for build/run and the java libraries 
> xalan-2.5.1.jar and
> xercesImpl-2.5.0.jar for transformation and parsing.  I am 
> seeking an XSLT 1.0
> solution.
> 
> Thanks for any assistance
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
>  <xsl:output method="text" indent="yes" media-type="text/plain"/>
>  
>  <xsl:template match="/"><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>    <xsl:for-each select="ERwin4/Model/Entity_Groups/Entity">
> 
>      <!-- ignore any tables starting with '_' character as 
> these are used for
> comments on datamodel diagram -->
>      <xsl:if test="not(starts-with(@Name,'_'))">
>        <xsl:for-each select="Attribute_Groups/Attribute">
> 
>          <xsl:variable name="isAuditColumnName">
>            <xsl:call-template name="is_audit_column">
>              <xsl:with-param name="columnName" select="@Name"/>
>            </xsl:call-template>
>          </xsl:variable>
>          <xsl:message>YYY<xsl:value-of
> select="$isAuditColumnName"/>YYY</xsl:message>
>    
>          ...snip.
> 
>        </xsl:for-each>
>      </xsl:if>
>    </xsl:for-each>
>  </xsl:template>
>      
>  <xsl:template name="is_audit_column">
>    <xsl:param name="columnName" select="''"/>
> 
>    <!-- find audit columnNames that match a set of names -->
>    <xsl:if test="string($columnName)='created_date'">
>      <xsl:value-of select="AUDIT_COLUMN"/>
>      <xsl:message>XXX<xsl:value-of 
> select="$columnName"/>XXX</xsl:message>
>    </xsl:if>
>    <xsl:if test="string($columnName)='created_by_sak'">
>      <xsl:value-of select="AUDIT_COLUMN"/>
>      <xsl:message>XXX<xsl:value-of 
> select="$columnName"/>XXX</xsl:message>
>    </xsl:if>
>  </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Output during run
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> [echo] converting xml export to Excel file named: 
> REDS_Phase2_Comments.xls
> [java] Input: XML (.\..\xml\datamodel\ReDS_Phase2_erwin_export.xml)
> [java] Stylesheet: 
> .\..\xsl\gen\excel\REDS_Phase2_DataDictionary_Comments.xsl
> [java] Output: XLS (.\REDS_Phase2_DataDictionary_Comments.xls)
> 
> [java] Transforming...
> [java] file:///...snip... Line #222; Column #14; YYYYYY
> [java] file:///...snip... Line #222; Column #14; YYYYYY
> ...snip...
> [java] file:///...snip... Line #222; Column #14; YYYYYY
> [java] file:///...snip... Line #222; Column #14; YYYYYY
> [java] file:///...snip... Line #299; Column #20; XXXcreated_dateXXX
> [java] file:///...snip... Line #222; Column #14; YYYYYY
> [java] file:///...snip... Line #304; Column #20; XXXcreated_by_sakXXX
> [java] file:///...snip... Line #222; Column #14; YYYYYY
> ...snip...
> [java] file:///...snip... Line #222; Column #14; YYYYYY
> [java] file:///...snip... Line #222; Column #14; YYYYYY
> [java] file:///...snip... Line #222; Column #14; YYYYYY
> [java] file:///...snip... Line #299; Column #20; XXXcreated_dateXXX
> [java] file:///...snip... Line #222; Column #14; YYYYYY
> [java] file:///...snip... Line #304; Column #20; XXXcreated_by_sakXXX
> [java] file:///...snip... Line #222; Column #14; YYYYYY
> [java] file:///...snip... Line #222; Column #14; YYYYYY
> ...snip.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Laurence T. O'Toole
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