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Posted to j-users@xalan.apache.org by Puneet Kathuria <Pu...@quark.com> on 2005/08/24 17:12:28 UTC

variable issue

Suppose my XML is like

 

<containerCatalog  id='0'>

      <container name="Root Node" classId="86"/>

      <container name="srinivas" classId="86"/>

      <container name="Test" classId="86"/>

</containerCatalog>

 

When I use it by first taking in variable and then calling

say in template <xsl:value-of select="count($var_name/container)"> its
giving error.

 

But while I call though apply template by matching template to
containerCatalog and then

 

using <xsl:value-of select="count(container)"> then its working fine.

Re: variable issue

Posted by Joseph Kesselman <ke...@us.ibm.com>.

Depending on how you're setting the variable, it may not be a node-set. See
discussion of the EXSLT node-set function, which will convert it into the
right form.

(The distinction between RTFs and node-sets will go away in XSLT 2.0.)

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