- From: Edward L. Knoll <ed.knoll@cosd.fedex.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 18:17:49 -0400 (EDT)
- To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
I am fairly new to XML/XSL, but I have been keeping a list of the most limiting issues I have encountered with XSL 1.0. Thankfully it appears that most of the ones on my list are being addressed by XSL 2.0. However, one issue that I am encountering more frequently the more I use XSL is that there is no way to indirectly dereference a variable. There is no way to construct or establish the name of variable into a variable and then dereference the constructed/established name. In short, there is no way to dereference a variable (var1) which contains the name of another variable (var2) to get the value of var2. I have seen many issues is some the XML/XSL news groups archives related to users trying to construct a variable name or use some other field to determine the name of the variable, so I don't believe this problem is unique to my experience. Seems like a good candidate for an XSL 2.0 requirement. Regards, Ed Knoll -- Edward L. Knoll Phone (work) : (719)484-2717 e-mail (work) : ed.knoll@cosd.fedex.com e-mail (business): eknoll@sf-inc.com e-mail (personal): edward@elknoll.com
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