RE: [xsl] Apply Templates question

["Richard Lander" <rlander@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, you cannot do this.

You would need something like the javascript "eval" function in order for the XSLT processor to evaluate the text as a template.

XSLT does not have a runtime way of executing generated code. I don't know if XSLT2 provides some facility in this area. You can, however, generate a transform and then execute that in a second pass on a document. You can also make your actual templates more dependent on passed params in order to provide more dynamic behaviour.

rich 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bennett
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 10:43 AM
To: xsl-list-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [xsl] Apply Templates question

Hello,

Is there a way to apply a template stored in a variable or param?


Example,
	In my test stylesheet, I currently have:

	...

<xsl:param name="template" select="'default'"/> <xsl:param name="testTemplate"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
	<xsl:apply-templates select="document('')/*"/> </xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="xsl:template[@name = '$template']">
	<xsl:param name="testTemplate"><xsl:copy-of select="."/></xsl:param> </xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="default">
	Made it to test.xsl - default template
</xsl:template>	
...


Which will allow a template to be selected based on a param but I'm not sure how to apply the template that gets stored in "testTemplate"
	(Or rather, how to apply the selected template once it's been matched by xsl:template[@name= '$template'])

Does anyone know where to go from here or have alternate suggestions?

TIA


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