Hello. Somebody contacted me directly today about a problem they were having with evaluating an XPath expression in an attribute of an extension element. (This person is using Xalan-J Interpretive.) I pointed out the ElemExtensionCall.getAttribute method,[1] which allows you to treat an attribute in an extension element as an AVT and get the effective value of the attribute.
He seemed happy with that, but wanted to know how to treat an attribute as an XPath expression which could be evaluated to a node set. So far as I can tell, there is no simple API that exists. Instead users have had to do things along the lines of what Simon Kitching describes in [2]. Is anybody aware of a simpler way of doing this? If not, is anybody aware of whether the project has ever received a request for a new feature along these lines? Thanks, Henry [1] http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/apidocs/org/apache/xalan/templates/ElemExtensionCall.html#getAttribute(java.lang.String,%20org.w3c.dom.Node,%20org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl) [2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xalan-j-users&m=102400418815043&w=2 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Henry Zongaro XSLT Processors Development IBM SWS Toronto Lab T/L 969-6044; Phone +1 905 413-6044 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
