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POUsing xsl:variable in a xsl:foreach select statement
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    copied!<p>I'm trying to iterate through an xml document using xsl:foreach but I need the select=" " to be dynamic so I'm using a variable as the source. Here's what I've tried:</p> <p>...</p> <pre><code>&lt;xsl:template name="SetDataPath"&gt; &lt;xsl:param name="Type" /&gt; &lt;xsl:variable name="Path_1"&gt;/Rating/Path1/*&lt;/xsl:variable&gt; &lt;xsl:variable name="Path_2"&gt;/Rating/Path2/*&lt;/xsl:variable&gt; &lt;xsl:if test="$Type='1'"&gt; &lt;xsl:value-of select="$Path_1"/&gt; &lt;/xsl:if&gt; &lt;xsl:if test="$Type='2'"&gt; &lt;xsl:value-of select="$Path_2"/&gt; &lt;/xsl:if&gt; &lt;xsl:template&gt; </code></pre> <p>...</p> <pre><code> &lt;!-- Set Data Path according to Type --&gt; &lt;xsl:variable name="DataPath"&gt; &lt;xsl:call-template name="SetDataPath"&gt; &lt;xsl:with-param name="Type" select="/Rating/Type" /&gt; &lt;/xsl:call-template&gt; &lt;/xsl:variable&gt; </code></pre> <p>...</p> <pre><code>&lt;xsl:for-each select="$DataPath"&gt; </code></pre> <p>...</p> <p>The foreach threw an error stating: "XslTransformException - To use a result tree fragment in a path expression, first convert it to a node-set using the msxsl:node-set() function."</p> <p>When I use the msxsl:node-set() function though, my results are blank.</p> <p>I'm aware that I'm setting $DataPath to a string, but shouldn't the node-set() function be creating a node set from it? Am I missing something? When I don't use a variable:</p> <pre><code>&lt;xsl:for-each select="/Rating/Path1/*"&gt; </code></pre> <p>I get the proper results.</p> <p>Here's the XML data file I'm using:</p> <pre><code>&lt;Rating&gt; &lt;Type&gt;1&lt;/Type&gt; &lt;Path1&gt; &lt;sarah&gt; &lt;dob&gt;1-3-86&lt;/dob&gt; &lt;user&gt;Sarah&lt;/user&gt; &lt;/sarah&gt; &lt;joe&gt; &lt;dob&gt;11-12-85&lt;/dob&gt; &lt;user&gt;Joe&lt;/user&gt; &lt;/joe&gt; &lt;/Path1&gt; &lt;Path2&gt; &lt;jeff&gt; &lt;dob&gt;11-3-84&lt;/dob&gt; &lt;user&gt;Jeff&lt;/user&gt; &lt;/jeff&gt; &lt;shawn&gt; &lt;dob&gt;3-5-81&lt;/dob&gt; &lt;user&gt;Shawn&lt;/user&gt; &lt;/shawn&gt; &lt;/Path2&gt; &lt;/Rating&gt; </code></pre> <p>My question is simple, how do you run a foreach on 2 different paths?</p>
 

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