Am Sonntag, 2. Oktober 2005 21:04 schrieb Sandor Spruit:
Hello,
> Don't know about the best way, but I had a similar problem recently:
> I wanted to apply a transformation to specific elements, pointed to by
> an XPath expression. The basic problem was that XSLT will not allow
> a variable where it expects an XPath, i.e. xsl:template match="$xpath".
>
> One of our students came up with this idea: create the *stylesheet* in a
> separate (internal) Cocoon pipeline. Create a placeholder in your XSLT
> where you'd normally insert an XPath expression, i.e. 'please-replace-me',
> and define a variable for this stylesheet. Write a simple stylesheet to
> copy the "stylesheet" template, but replacing the placeholder with your
> XPath.
>
> Use the result of this pipeline ('a dynamic stylesheet') from your regular
> Cocoon pipeline using the cocoon:/ pseudo-protocol.
Wouldn't it be _much_ easier to use xalan extensions for this purpose?
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xalan";>
<xsl:param name="parameter_xpath"/>
...
... select="xalan:evaluate($parameter_xpath)"
HTH
Christoph
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