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From: "Brian" <bryhardt@yahoo.com>
To: <xalan-j-users@xml.apache.org>
Subject: XSL newbie - way to do dynamic variables?
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 10:21:09 -0500
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given this simple XML

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<product>
	<color>red</color>
	<name>car</name>
</product>

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i want to call a XSL template and pass the tag name as dynamic variable - so
the temlate being called can process a variety of incoming XML and give the
same result HTML

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<xsl:call-template name="doThis">
	<xsl:with-param name="pageBody" select="product"/>
	<xsl:with-param name="field1" select="name"/>
	<xsl:with-param name="field2" select="color"/>
</xsl:call-template>

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so that if dynamic vars would work (showing it like a php $$) it would look
something like this (of course this doesnt work)...

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<xsl:param name="pageBody"/>
<xsl:param name="field1"/>
<xsl:param name="field2"/>

<xsl:value-of select="$field1"/> : <xsl:value-of select="$$field1"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$field2"/> : <xsl:value-of select="$$field2"/>

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so the output would be something like
name : car
color : red

i could even live with reformatting the input XML and placing it into a
variable in the format that the calling template would expect - but i
couldnt get the variable/parameter to parse as XML into the calling template

any help?

thanks,
Brian...