On May 4, 8:28 am, Martin Honnen <mahotr...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> Jean-Fran=E7ois Michaud wrote:
> > I was wondering if it was possible to reference a boolean predicate in
> > a variable. Basically I want to do with the boolean predicate what you
> > would do with any other variable; I want it to apply to many places
> > without having to update all those different locations if the
> > predicate needs to change.
>
> > This is not a full stylesheet, just snippets of the idea
>
> >   <xsl:variable name=3D"list-orphans-widows.properties">
> >     position()=3Dlast()-1 or position()=3Dlast()-2 or (position()=3D'1'=
 and
> > position()!=3Dlast()) or (position()=3D'2' and position()!=3Dlast())
> >   </xsl:variable>
>
> You can't store an XPath expression in a variable and evaluate that
> XPath expression dynamically. So your variable above is simply
> containing a result tree fragment with a text node containing some text.
> XSLT 2.0 allows you to define your own functions and call them, that is
> the closest I can think of. Besides processor specific extension
> functions allowing you to evaluate a string with an XPath expression.
>
> --
>
>         Martin Honnen
>        http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/


Right on, thanks for the answer Martin. I created a function to allow
for equivalent logic.

Regards
Jean-Francois Michaud