$@src

newbieboobers · March 12th, 2008, 02:04 PM

Hello again, another basic question...

<poop src="asdf" />

<xsl:variables name="asdf">asdfasdf</xsl:variable>

During the transformation I would like something to work like $@src... like it converts the value of the @src to a string that is then interpreted as the name of the variable... so $@src = $asdf in the previous example.

Is this possible?

Sorry, I just found out about XSLT like a week ago :/

samjudson · March 12th, 2008, 03:38 PM

You can refer to an attribute as simply @src, provided you are in the correct context.

You can assign an attribute to a variable like so:

<xsl:variable name="poopsrc" select="/poop/@src" />

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

mhkay · March 12th, 2008, 04:22 PM

No, it's not possible. Despite the use of $ to indicate a variable reference, XSLT is more like a compiled language than a shell-script language. Variables represent values, they don't represent bits of expression text, and their names are not accessible at run-time.

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