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Re: Using a variable to check to see if that element exists in another xml doc.
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- Subject: Re: Using a variable to check to see if that element exists in another xml doc.
- From: Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 18:28:58 +0000
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
Laura:
At 03:52 PM 2/7/00 -0600, you wrote:
>I am trying to use the variable myKey to check to see if it's value (ie.
>"currencyCode") is an element in another document.
>I am having some problems. does anyone know what is wrong with this xsl.
...
>Here is my xsl template::
><xsl:template match="object">
> <xsl:for-each select="property">
> <xsl:variable name="myKey" select="key"/>
> <xsl:if test="$myKey='currencyCode'">
> This works; try the next if
> <xsl:if test="document('en_US.xml')/locale/$myKey">
> insert label
> </xsl:if>
> </xsl:if>
>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
This looks like another of the "a string is not a node" variety of
slip-ups. The value of the assigned variable is a string. It can't be used
directly to select a node.
Inside your location path, try our old friend, *[local-name() = $myKey] to
match "each element whose local name is equal to the string $myKey" and see
how that works....
--Wendell Piez
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