"Loudin" <patrick.loudin@s...> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I`ve got Problems with Xpath and xsltproc/libxslt.
> 
> I have got a variable with tags in my Style sheet and later in the same
> Style sheet i want to work with this tags using a <xsl:for-each>. Here is a
> example:
> 
> 
> 
> <xsl:variable name="posinfo">
> 
>     <pos tagname="dummy1" postypes="123"/>
> 
>     <pos tagname="dummy2" postypes="456"/>
> 
>     <pos tagname="dummy3" postypes="789"/>
> 
> </xsl:variable>
> 
> 
> 
> <xsl:for-each select="$posinfo/pos">
> 
>     <POS>...</POS>
> 
> </xsl:for-each>
> 
> I am using saxon and with saxon the for-each works correctly.

Presumably you are using saxon 8 (which implements xslt2) or specifying
version="1.1" on xsl:stylesheet with saxon 6. (XSLT 1.1 never existed
but saxon 6 implements a draft of it. This draft and the draft xslt2
implemented by saxon8 both allow this syntax.

>  But I want to
> change to xsltproc, because it ist faster. But with xsltproc I am getting
> the message: "XPath error : Invalide type". Does somebody know, how i can
> fix this error?
> 

I believe xsltproc has a node-set extension function, in which case you
need to convert the result tree fragment into a node set, something like

<xsl:for-each select="x:node-set($posinfo)/pos">

whateverr xmlns:x="whatever xsltproc's extension namespace is"

> thanks for your attention.
> 
> with kind regards,
> 
> Loudin

To do it without extension functions, put
<x>
     <pos tagname="dummy1" postypes="123"/>
     <pos tagname="dummy2" postypes="456"/>
     <pos tagname="dummy3" postypes="789"/>
</x>
in foo.xml and use

<xsl:for-each select="document('foo.xml')/x/pos">


David