& XSLT regarding:

> How do you expect the processor to guess the value of x ?

 >  Maybe because he's passing in the value?

I got an answer earlier (not sure if it hit the list)... I basically, I 
was passing 'foo' instead of "'foo'", and the stylesheet thought foo was 
search expression.

I'm not in fact expecting the processor to be psychic :)



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>    1. XSLT question (passing parameters) (David Craig)
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>    3. Re: XSLT question (passing parameters) (A. Pagaltzis)
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> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 04:27:36 -0800
> From: David Craig <david@[...].net>
> Subject: XSLT question (passing parameters)
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> Hello all,
> 
> I'm having a problem with passing in external parameters... I've tried 
> several transformation engines (komodo built in, XML::LibXSLT) to no 
> avail, so I think I'm making a mistake in the code. A really simple 
> example is this:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
> version="1.0">
> <xsl:param name="x"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
>             <xsl:text>|</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$x" 
> /><xsl:text>|</xsl:text>
>     </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> I would expect to get "|valueofx|" but instead I get "||"
> 
> Am I being stupid?
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> --David Craig
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 14:48:42 +0100
> From: Stephane Roux (HAbeTT) <habett@[...].org>
> Subject: Re: XSLT question (passing parameters)
> To: perl-xml@[...].com
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> 
> In <437F1A38.4060009@[...].net>, David Craig wrote:
> 
>   
> 
> ><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> ><xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> >version="1.0">
> ><xsl:param name="x"/>
> >
> ><xsl:template match="/">
> >            <xsl:text>|</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$x"
> >/><xsl:text>|</xsl:text>
> >    </xsl:template>
> ></xsl:stylesheet>
> >
> >I would expect to get "|valueofx|" but instead I get "||"
> >    
> >
> 
> How do you expect the processor to guess the value of x ?
> 
> Try adding a select to your <xsl:param>
> 
> 
>   
> 


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