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Problems to interpret an attribute value as an Xpath expression
- From: "Roman Huditsch" <roman dot huditsch at hico dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>, <www-forms at w3 dot org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:22:49 +0100
- Subject: [xsl] Problems to interpret an attribute value as an Xpath expression
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Hi alltogehther!
I have some basic problems, which I hope to be able to solve with your help.
Basically what I want is to transform an xform document (not embedded in XHTML) into an html document with all the needed html form controls.
I know that it is not the intended way to display xform documents ;), but I have to do it like that in the meantime.
Lets say I have an xform document like the following:
<xform:model>
<xform:submitInfo id="SubmitInfo1"/>
<xform:instance>
<applicationform>
<applicant>
<gender>m</gender>
<name>Roman Huditsch</name>
......
</xform:instance>
<xform:model>
<xform:input ref="/applicationform/applicant[1]/name"/>
<xform:input ref="/applicationform/applicant[2]/name"/>
....
I'd like to use the value of a ref attribute as an XPath expression in my stylesheet. I want the processor to jump to the specified node and get the value from there.
I used a "normal" <xsl:value-of select="@ref"/> ,but the processor didn't interpret it as an XPath expression but as a string.
Does anyone know a method to tell the processor to use a source document's attribute value as an XPath expression in the stylesheet?
Best regards,
Roman
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