XSLT: iterating over a node-set stored in a variable

[Steffen Beyer]

Hi,

following situation:

<xsl:variable name="newsarticles">
<xsl:call-template name="find_current_newsarticles"/>
</xsl:variable>

<!--
$newsarticles now contains something like

<... </<... </-->

<xsl:if test="$newsarticles">
<p>News</p>

<xsl:for-each select="$newsarticles">
<p>Article</p>

<xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:if>

The body of the if-clause gets executed but the for-each doesn't loop at
all. I'm really stuck - what XPath expression do I need to use here?

BTW, this is of course not for-each specific. <apply-templates
select="$newsarticles"/> does not work either.

Regards,

 

[Marrow]

Hi Steffen,

Your variable $newsarticles will contain an RTF (result tree fragment) - in
XSLT 1.0 RTFs cannot be used as a node-set therefore this line...

<xsl:for-each select="$newsarticles">

should raise a transformation error. Having said that, some transformation
engines do allow RTFs to be used as node-sets without conversion.

Your transformation may support an extension function that enables you to
convert RTFs to node-sets (e.g. xxx:Node-set() - where 'xxx' will be an
appropriate extension prefix). Or your transformation engine may support
EXSLT (www.exslt.org) in which case you should be able to use
exsl:node-set().

HTH
Marrow
http://www.marrowsoft.com - home of Xselerator (XSLT IDE and debugger)
http://www.topxml.com/Xselerator

 

[Steffen Beyer]

Your transformation may support an extension function that enables you
to convert RTFs to node-sets (e.g. xxx:Node-set() - where 'xxx' will be
an appropriate extension prefix). Or your transformation engine may
support EXSLT (www.exslt.org) in which case you should be able to use
exsl:node-set().

I'm using LibXSLT - libxslt:node-set() and exsl:node-set() do both work
and solve my problem.

Thanks a lot!

Regards,