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Re: [xsl] using variable in mode attribute

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Hi Long,

At 03:53 PM 1/10/2003, you wrote:

I have the following code which does not work.
if I replace the mode="$BID" with mode="id1" in line 4, it works.
so my question is
does the mode attribute take a variable?

No, it doesn't (too bad).

if it does not, what should I do?

You could have a single alternate mode for B (say, call it "id"), and then differentiate among templates matching your different B elements in their matches:

<xsl:template match="B[@id = 'id1']" mode="id">
...
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="B[@id = 'id2']" mode="id">
...
</xsl:template>

...or do any of several other things (for example, xsl:choose) to achieve the same effect (processing conditioned on the value of the id element).

It may also interest you to know that if these are *real* (i.e. DTD-declared) ID attributes, you can do

<xsl:template match="id('id1')" mode="id">
...
</xsl:template>

since the id() function (which returns an element by the value of its ID attribute) can appear in a match pattern. But your attribute needs to be declared as type ID for this to work.

Cheers,
Wendell

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