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POXSLT - Match variable element in predicate
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    copied!<pre><code>&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="element[child='Yes']"&gt; </code></pre> <p>Works fine but I would like to use </p> <pre><code>&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="element[$childElementName='Yes']"&gt; </code></pre> <p>so I can use a variable to specify the node.</p> <p>For example</p> <pre><code>&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="theList/entity[Central='Yes']"&gt; </code></pre> <p>works fine against:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;theList&gt; &lt;entity&gt; &lt;Business-Name&gt;Company 1&lt;/Business-Name&gt; &lt;Phone-Number&gt;123456&lt;/Phone-Number&gt; &lt;Central&gt;Yes&lt;/Central&gt; &lt;region1&gt;No&lt;/region1&gt; &lt;region2&gt;Yes&lt;/region2&gt; &lt;region3&gt;No&lt;/region3&gt; &lt;Northern&gt;No&lt;/Northern&gt; &lt;/entity&gt; &lt;entity&gt; &lt;Business-Name&gt;Company 2&lt;/Business-Name&gt; &lt;Phone-Number&gt;123456&lt;/Phone-Number&gt; &lt;Central&gt;No&lt;/Central&gt; &lt;region1&gt;Yes&lt;/region1&gt; &lt;region2&gt;No&lt;/region2&gt; &lt;region3&gt;No&lt;/region3&gt; &lt;Northern&gt;Yes&lt;/Northern&gt; &lt;/entity&gt; &lt;entity&gt; &lt;Business-Name&gt;Company 3&lt;/Business-Name&gt; &lt;Phone-Number&gt;123456&lt;/Phone-Number&gt; &lt;Central&gt;Yes&lt;/Central&gt; &lt;region1&gt;No&lt;/region1&gt; &lt;region2&gt;No&lt;/region2&gt; &lt;region3&gt;No&lt;/region3&gt; &lt;Northern&gt;No&lt;/Northern&gt; &lt;/entity&gt; &lt;entity&gt; &lt;Business-Name&gt;Company 4&lt;/Business-Name&gt; &lt;Phone-Number&gt;123456&lt;/Phone-Number&gt; &lt;Central&gt;No&lt;/Central&gt; &lt;region1&gt;No&lt;/region1&gt; &lt;region2&gt;No&lt;/region2&gt; &lt;region3&gt;No&lt;/region3&gt; &lt;Northern&gt;No&lt;/Northern&gt; &lt;/entity&gt; &lt;/theList&gt; </code></pre> <p>But I do not wish to hard code the child element name.</p> <p>Any suggestions?</p> <p>Thanks Tim for the answer:</p> <pre><code>&lt;xsl:apply-templates select="theList/entity[child::*[name()=$childElement]='Yes']" /&gt; </code></pre>
 

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