Hi there,
I'm struggeling with a basic problem. This is my xml:

<Demo>
  <NextDay>
     <German>morgen</German>
     <English>tomorrow</English>
     <Italian>domani</Italian>
  </NextDay>
</Demo>
I would like to extract the value based on a variable (or a parameter to be more precise).

<xsl:variable name="lang" select="'Italian'" />
....
<xsl:template match="NextDay">
  <xsl:parameter name="curLang" />
AND HERE I GOT STUCK: <xsl:value-of select="?????" />
<xsl:template>

I tried $curLang, '$curLang', '{$curLang}', {$curLang}

It's a standard problem, so it looks to me.. replace part of an XPath with a variable name. What am I missing out?

:( stw

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Hi stw,

If your variable is global (defined under xsl:stylesheet), try

<xsl:variable name="lang" select="'Italian'" />

...

<xsl:template match="NextDay">
       <xsl:value-of select="*[name()=$lang]" />
</xsl:template>

Regards
Bryan

Thx a lot!

the [name()=...] was the missing piece. It's quite mindblowing to understand the difference between text and node
;) stw

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