Using parameters

[Scott Moore <sm...@novacoxmail.com>]

I have a general XSLT question, not really specific to just Xalan.  I'm creating XSL-FO tables and I would like to generalize the table creation with a XSLT template.  But I'm having problems with the selection of child nodes that go into the columns of the table.

For instance

<xsl:call-template name="table-body">
 <xsl:with-param name="root" select="/root/TableData"></xsl:with-param>
 <xsl:with-param name="col1-select" select="'year'"/>
</xsl:call-template>

This calls by table creation template.  The "col1-select" is the name of the node underneath the /root/TableData node whose value I want placed into the table.

Here's the template to create the table:


<xsl:template name="table-body">
 <xsl:param name="root"/>
 <xsl:param name="col1-select"/>
 
 <fo:table-body>
     <xsl:for-each select="$root">
        <fo:table-row>
            <fo:table-cell>
                <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="table-body"><xsl:value-of select="$col1-select"/></fo:block>
            </fo:table-cell>
        </fo:table-row>
    </xsl:for-each>
 </fo:table-body>
</xsl:template>



The xsl:for-each works fine and loops thru all the data.  The problem is I can't select the child nodes values underneath $root unless I hardcode the values (e.g., if I change $col1-select to "year", it works as expected).  Is there any way I can use a variable to select the child nodes I'm interested in using when producing my table?

I've tried {$col1-select} and that doesn't work either.  Neither does "./$col1-select" or "./{$col1-select}".

Any help would be most appreciated!

Thanks,
Scott