Oleg Tkachenko [MVP] wrote:

> Peter Flynn wrote:
> 
>>>No, variable references cannot be used in match, even within a
>>>predicate.
>> 
>> 
>> Parameter references can:
>> 
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
>> <doc>
>>   <foo>bar</foo>
>>   <bar>foo</bar>
>> </doc>
>> 
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
>> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>>                 version="1.0">
>> 
>>   <xsl:output method="html"/>
>>   <xsl:param name="ename"/>
>> 
>>   <xsl:template match="*[name()=$ename]">
> 
> No, that's invalid XSLT. And Saxon, MSXML and .NET all refuse to
> process it. XSLT 1.0 spec says explicitly:
> "It is an error for the value of the match attribute to contain a
> VariableReference [http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#NT-VariableReference]".
> And XPath makes no difference between variables and parameters.

I'm sorry, Saxon8 processes it without complaint: that's why I 
posted it -- I tested it before posting. 

If this is a bug we should probably report it, but it definitely
works:

$ cat test.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<doc>
  <foo>bar</foo>
  <bar>foo</bar>
</doc>
$ cat test.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="1.0">

  <xsl:output method="html"/>
  <xsl:param name="ename"/>

  <xsl:template match="*[name()=$ename]">
    <blort>
      <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </blort>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
$ /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java -jar /usr/local/saxon/b8.5/saxon8.jar
-o test.html test.xml test.xsl ename=foo
Warning: Running an XSLT 1.0 stylesheet with an XSLT 2.0 processor
$ cat test.html

<blort>bar</blort>
foo
$

///Peter