RE: syntax question: using a variable inside format-number()

["Richard Birkby" <rbirkby at hotmail dot com>]

You could write an equivalent expression evaluation function in your 
processor of choice.

For instance:

function expression(context_node, xpath) {
  return context_node.item(0).selectNodes(xpath);
}

would give you something similar if you were implementing it as an extension 
function in MSXML3.


Richard

>From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@icl.com>
>Reply-To: xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
>To: "'xsl-list@mulberrytech.com'" <xsl-list@mulberrytech.com>
>Subject: RE: syntax question: using a variable inside format-number()
>Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 11:36:52 -0000
>
> > select="format-number(concat('/AssetAnalyzer/',$curcat),'#00%')"/>
> >
> > I believe will work.
>
>It won't. There is no way in standard XSLT 1.0 of constructing an XPath
>expression from a string and then evaluating it.
>
>Saxon has extension functions saxon:expression() and saxon:evaluate()
>
>Mike Kay
>
>
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