I would like to take the value of an element and use it as an XPath. For example:

XML
<some_xpath>/colors/blues/@name</some_xpath>

XSL
<xsl:value-of select="some_xpath"/>

(I would like the output to be the nodes of /colors/blues/@name, not the string)

I suppose I could somehow split apart the the string and find each node, but I was hoping there was an easier way.

(assume /colors/blues/@name is XML somewhere else)



Thanks,

Kael

Hi Kael,

The only way around this (unless you are using xslt 2.0) is to use an extended function (processor dependant):

See my reply in the following thread:
http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20364

Regards
Bryan

Thank you, I'll see what I can do with an extended function, or maybe I'll look into using XSLT 2.0..

Thanks,

Kael

I'm fairly confident that even XSLT 2 doesn't do this.
The extension function or a two phase transform is the way to go.



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Joe (Co-author Beginning XML, 3rd edition)

I've implemented the extended function.. works like a charm. Thank you.



Thanks,

Kael

Which XSLT processor are you using?

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Joe (Co-author Beginning XML, 3rd edition)