Hi Guys,

yeah.. I did it too a while back and thats why i also thought it
should be doable.

To be honest, it might be a bug in Saxon but if i had a say in it; i
would call it a bug / missing feature in the spec.

My assumption is that the indexes are being build before the
parameters are evaluated or it's a performance issue (0 dynamics in
the source pattern makes it somewhat easier & performant).

I checked the "#NT-VariableReference" of the spec, but i couldn't find
the "match does not allow this".  
Oleg; If you have any more specific links to the paragraph stating
this info, please post them.

Marvin Smit.

On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 21:41:54 +0000, Peter Flynn
<peter.nosp@m...> wrote:

>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