I was wondering if its possible to filter through a variable value. I'm setting up logic which will swap the class used on the navigation so that when your on each page, the selected pages navigation will visually represent it. Typically I would handle this in js but I want to do it in xsl. So, below I would like the value of everything past the /. I just need the word "when". Can I pull just that somehow?


<xsl:variable name="page" select="fcd/when" />

I'm sure there is a much better way to do this but here is my plan. I'd like to have a choose statement look to see if an active attribute setup in the xml file matches the value of page in the xsl. If so, use this css class, if not then use the regular (inactive) class. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
-m



Thanks!
-m

<xsl:variable name="page" select="fcd/when" />

Did you mean to write that: i.e. the select attribute is a path expression that selects the "when" child of the "fcd" child? If so, there's no way you can treat it as a string at run-time, the compiler will have turned it into something quite different by then.

If you actually meant that page is a string, viz

<xsl:variable name="page" select="'fcd/when'" />

then you can extract the "when" using substring-after($page, '/').




Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference