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Fellow XSLers,
How can I use a string param passed on the command line as an XPath? E.g., if I have this XML: <library>
<book>
<title>Bob</title>
</book>
</library>and I want to have a general-purpose XSL that I can pass an XPath to output any desired XML fragment. So I tried this: <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/> <xsl:param name="xpath"/> <!-- passed on command line as a param --> <xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:copy-of select="$xpath"/>
</xsl:template>passing xpath="/library/book[title='Bob']". But of course, it just outputs this: /library/book[title='Bob'] while I really wanted the node at that XPath: <book>
<title>Bob</title>
</book>Is there a function or syntax in XSLT 1 or 2 that will evaluate the XPath at run-time? (BTW, I'm using SaxonPE 9.3 on Linux, if that matters.) Thanks so much for any help! --Rich Richard Fozzard, Computer Scientist Geospatial Metadata at NGDC: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) Univ. Colorado & NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Enterprise Data Systems 325 S. Broadway, Skaggs 1B-305, Boulder, CO 80305 Office: 303-497-6487, Cell: 303-579-5615, Email: richard.fozzard@xxxxxxxx
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