On Thursday, 16. January 2003 17:39, S Woodside wrote: > Yeah this is my problem right now. I can get the XPath (not XML) > statement back into the XSLT using the param method. But when I try to > use that param in a select statement, the parser complains that it > needs a node set not a string > > it looks like this > > <xsl:apply-templates select="$the param"/> > > and it borks there. > > I can't find any functions that turn an XPath string (from a var) into > a node-set. GRR.
Well, the reason is simple: XSLT was explicitly designtd to not support this. But there is hope: look at www.exslt.org, there are numerous extension functions documented. While not all of them are available with libxslt, there is one which allows you to do what you want. -- CU Joerg PGP Public Key at http://ich.bin.kein.hoschi.de/~trouble/public_key.asc PGP Key fingerprint = D34F 57C4 99D8 8F16 E16E 7779 CDDC 41A4 4C48 6F94 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
