"." changes its meaning inside square brackets. Try [@name=current()].

Regards,

Michael Kay
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Lewis [mailto:richard.lewis@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 08 July 2009 18:31
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Using outer context node inside for-each
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> Here is an abstraction of my problem template:
> 
>  <xsl:template match="record">
>    <xsl:param name="show-fields" />
>    <xsl:variable name="this" select="." />
> 
>    <xsl:for-each select="str:tokenize($show-fields)">
>      <xsl:message><xsl:value-of select="$this/field[@name=.]" 
> /></xsl:message>
>    </xsl:for-each>
>  </xsl:template>
> 
> So <record> elements have child elements called <field> which 
> each have a @name attribute.
> 
> The given template should accept a parameter which is a list 
> of field names, and emit an <xsl:message> of each <field> 
> element whose @name is in that list.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that using the $this variable as a node set 
> isn't the problem, because the following works fine:
> 
> <xsl:message><xsl:value-of 
> select="$this/field[@name='some-field']" /></xsl:message>
> 
> I'm also pretty sure that the current node (.) inside the 
> for-each is the field name from the list. But I'm pretty 
> certain that the problem is something to do with testing 
> @name against . in that XPath predicate.
> 
> I'm using libxslt 1.1.24 (and its str:tokenize implementation).
> 
> Any ideas?
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