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RE: [xsl] Concatenating multiple variables in a XPath statement

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> Thank you Micheal.
> There are xpath and element names in the variables. var1 
> contains an xpath like /form/body/rows/row[$i] and var2 has 
> an element name which is found dynamically in a loop.
> I think this is the case that XPath does not support. Am I right?

Correct. XSLT does not allow you to construct XPath expressions dynamically
as strings. Several products including Saxon have extension functions that
allow this, for example saxon:evaluate().

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

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