Ahhh. I had tried concatenate, but I was trying to use it with
surrounding quotes, like this:
color:
concatenate("xpath(\"document('file:///c:/program%20files/xmlmind_xml_ed
itor/addon/config/dita/css/css_strings.xml')//*...@id='blue']\")");
Thank you!
-----Original Message-----
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 4:58 AM
To: Mark Fletcher
Cc: xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com
Subject: Re: [XXE] question about xpath()
Mark Fletcher wrote:
> Can xpath() be used to retrieve a string for a property value rather
> than for generated content? I can't get it to work, but maybe I'm
> doing something wrong.
>
> What I'm trying to do is evaluate an xpath if() expression and return
> (from an xml resourse file) the property value to apply. (I'm trying
> this because the CSS selector syntax isn't powerful enough to do what
> I
> need.) Is there any way to accomplish this?
Yes, the trick is to use the concatenate() (see
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/csssupport/simple_dynamic.
html)
pseudo-function to evaluate what is returned by xpath() as a property
value.
Here's a simple XHTML example:
---
body {
display: block;
}
/*
* Partial support for the Transitional DTD.
*/
body[bgcolor] {
background-color: concatenate(xpath("./@bgcolor")); } body[text] {
color: concatenate(xpath("./@text")); }
---
