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RE: path quesion
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- Subject: RE: path quesion
- From: Kay Michael <Michael dot Kay at icl dot com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 01:17:38 +0100
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> Kay Michael wrote:
> > There is no way in standard XSLT of constructing an XPath expression
> from a
> > string (other than by writing a stylesheet to generate another
> stylesheet).
>
> This worked for me on Oracle v2.0.2.8.
> <xsl:value-of
> select="$CRData/Root/Item[text()=current()]/*[name()=$CRElement]/text()"/>
>
[Kay Michael] Yes, the problem of "dynamic XPath expressions" can
often be solved in particular cases by a predicate that tests against
name(). But this doesn't solve the general case, e.g. of finding nodes by
following an XPath expression (or XPointer) in the source document, or
supplied as a parameter.
Mike K
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