Re: Problem of handling top-level variables in Xalan-C

[Da...@lotus.com]

This is a known problem and will be fixed in the next release.  The code
should be available in CVS early next week if you want to build from the
sources.

Dave



                                                                                                                   
                    Mingfei Peng                                                                                   
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                    11/23/2000                                                                                     
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Both Xalan-j 1.2.1 and Saxon 6.0 can handle the following XSL file, but
Xalan-C 1.0 report a parse error:
XSL Error: Could not get variable named part

But it is obvious that $part has been defined, so I think there is an bug
in
Xalan-C. When Xalan-C evaluates $seg1, it doesn't use the value of $part,
although $part is already resolved.

The stylesheet can be tested with any xml file.

----------------------------

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:param name="part" select="'xyz'"/>

<xsl:param name="seg1">
<xsl:call-template name="evaluate"/>
</xsl:param>

<xsl:template name="evaluate">
<xsl:element name="{$part}"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>






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