Problems to interpret an attribute value as an Xpath expression

Think of this as the more general problem of writing an XSL
transform 
that in turns produces an XSL transform.

You should be able to do what you need using that approach.
>>>>> "Roman" == Roman Huditsch <roman.huditsch@hico.com> writes:

    Roman> Hi alltogehther!  I have some basic problems,
    Roman> which I hope to be able to solve with your help.
    Roman> Basically what I want is to transform an xform
    Roman> document (not embedded in XHTML) into an html
    Roman> document with all the needed html form controls.
    Roman> I know that it is not the intended way to display
    Roman> xform documents ;), but I have to do it like that
    Roman> in the meantime.  Lets say I have an xform
    Roman> document like the following:

    Roman> <xform:model> <xform:submitInfo
    Roman> id="SubmitInfo1"/> <xform:instance>
    Roman> <applicationform> <applicant> <gender>m</gender>
    Roman> <name>Roman Huditsch</name> ......

    Roman>         </xform:instance> <xform:model>
    Roman> <xform:input
    Roman> ref="/applicationform/applicant[1]/name"/>
    Roman> <xform:input
    Roman> ref="/applicationform/applicant[2]/name"/> ....

    Roman> I'd like to use the value of a ref attribute as
    Roman> an XPath expression in my stylesheet. I want the
    Roman> processor to jump to the specified node and get
    Roman> the value from there.  I used a "normal"
    Roman> <xsl:value-of select="@ref"/> ,but the processor
    Roman> didn't interpret it as an XPath expression but as
    Roman> a string.

    Roman> Does anyone know a method to tell the processor
    Roman> to use a source document's attribute value as an
    Roman> XPath expression in the stylesheet?

    Roman> Best regards, Roman

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--raman
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Received on Thursday, 10 January 2002 14:17:51 UTC