xsl:variable as xpath value for other xsl tag

Question

I\'m having issues with xsl:variable. I want to create a variable with a value that depends on the value of another XML node attribute. This working good. But w

Answer 1

Dynamic evaluation of an XPath expression is generally not supported in XSLT (both 1.0 and 2.0), however:

We can implement a rather general dynamic XPath evaluator if we only restrict each location path to be an element name:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output method="text"/>

 <xsl:param name="inputId" select="'param/yyy/value'"/>

 <xsl:variable name="vXpathExpression"
  select="concat('root/meta/url_params/', $inputId)"/>

 <xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:value-of select="$vXpathExpression"/>: <xsl:text/>

  <xsl:call-template name="getNodeValue">
    <xsl:with-param name="pExpression"
         select="$vXpathExpression"/>
  </xsl:call-template>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template name="getNodeValue">
   <xsl:param name="pExpression"/>
   <xsl:param name="pCurrentNode" select="."/>

   <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="not(contains($pExpression, '/'))">
      <xsl:value-of select="$pCurrentNode/*[name()=$pExpression]"/>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
      <xsl:call-template name="getNodeValue">
        <xsl:with-param name="pExpression"
          select="substring-after($pExpression, '/')"/>
        <xsl:with-param name="pCurrentNode" select=
        "$pCurrentNode/*[name()=substring-before($pExpression, '/')]"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

when this transformation is applied on this XML document:

<root>
  <meta>
    <url_params>
      <param>
        <xxx>
          <value>5</value>
        </xxx>
      </param>
      <param>
        <yyy>
          <value>8</value>
        </yyy>
      </param>
    </url_params>
  </meta>
</root>

the wanted, correct result is produced:

root/meta/url_params/param/yyy/value: 8

Answer 2

This is not natively possible in XSLT 1.0, but you can use an extension library such as dyn:

http://www.exslt.org/dyn/functions/evaluate/dyn.evaluate.html

The dyn:evaluate function evaluates a string as an XPath expression.

Answer 3

If those path are known in advance like this case, then you can use:

<xsl:variable name="vCondition" select="node/@attribute = 0"/>
<xsl:variable name="test" select="actual/path[$vCondition] |
                                  other/actual/path[not($vCondition)]"/>