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Re: [xsl] A Problem with Variables and Xpath

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I have a variable like this:

<xsl:variable name="foo">something</xsl:variable>

and I am trying to set an attribute in this way:

<disney>
   <xsl:attribute name="mickey">
    <xsl:value-of select="./$foo"/>
   </xsl:attribute>
</disney>

where $foo is the name of an attribute of the source document.

The (wrong) output is:

<disney mickey="something">
</disney>

It's actually the correct output - it's your expectations that are wrong. Variables in XPath hold values, they don't hold bits of expression text. XPath is not a macro language. select="./$foo" means exactly the same as select="$foo" - it returns the value of the variable $foo.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

while the desired one is:

<disney mickey="valueof(something)">
</disney>

Thanks for help!

Christian

P.S.
I am using XSLT and Xpath 2.0

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