On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:51:59 -0800 "John Merrells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Following on from my namespace question, I see that the > XPath 1.0 grammar supports variable references... > > VariableReference ::= "$" QName > > But, there's no way of binding a value to a variable in the > language... so the variables must come from the execution > context... but unlike the namespace mapping the > XPathQueryService doesn't provide a mechanism for passing > this through to the execution engine. Was this a deliberate > decision, or has it just not come up before? Hi John. I really can't see how this might happen. You should always have an executation context like XSLT or the like. We only use XPath to evaluate the context node, i.e. select one or more node/elements. But your're right here: this question just not come up before. Regards, Lars. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Lars Martin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SMB GmbH http://www.smb-tec.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Read archived messages: http://archive.xmldb.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
