James.. thanks for the tip. As usual, I discovered my problem 15 minutes
after I posted to the list ;-) But, now I am trying something different
that doesn't seem to work.
Here's the new select statement I am trying:
select = "//person[contains($field, $value)]"
Where field and value are parameters from the query string. $value seems
to work just fine, but the $field part doesn't. Does anyone have any
guidelines on what will and won't work when it comes to variable
substitution? The xtags documentation is alittle light in this area ;-)
Thanks,
John Townsend
-----Original Message-----
From: James Elson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 3:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; John Townsend
Subject: Re: xtags:ForEach question (involving parameters)
John Townsend wrote:
> <xtags:forEach select = "//person[child::name[contains(text(),
> '$param')]]">
>
> [...]
>
>
>
> Select = "//person[child::name[contains(text(), 'John')]]"
>
> Then it works. But, I would like to pass in the 'John' parameter from
> the URL. The URL would look something like this:
>
> http://localhost:8080/myapp/mypage.jsp?param=John
>
> Can I do this? I thought if I put $param in my select statement it
would
> work, but it didn't seem to work.
I see you're putting the $param inside quotes. Try it without the string
delimiters:
<xtags:forEach select =
"//person[child::name[contains(text(),$param)]]">
James
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