Hi all!

Let's say we have this XML:

<frozenTreats>
<treat type="ice-cream">
<flavour>chocolate</flavour>
</treat>
<treat type="ice-cream">
<flavour>vanilla</flavour>
</treat>
<treat type="yogurt">
<flavour>chocolate</flavour>
</treat>
</frozenTreats>

My question is: can I use a variable in the match attribute of a template? Something like this:

<xsl:variable name="myPreferredTreat" select="'yogurt'"/>

<xsl:template match="treat[@type = $myPreferredTreat]">
<xsl:value-of select="concat(flavour, ' ', @type)"/>
</xsl:template>

thanks,

Rushman

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Dijkstra's law on Programming and Inertia:

If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, don't try to write it.

It's allowed in XSLT 2.0 but not in XSLT 1.0.

Though I believe at least one XSLT 1.0 processor (Xalan) does actually allow it, despite it being illegal according to the spec.

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Michael Kay
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Author, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer\'s Reference

You are right Mike. It works with Xalan if written in XSLT 1.0. I tested in oXygen editor with different processors.

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Rummy