"aidy" <aidy.rutter@g...> wrote in message 
news:1144165671.513977.208050@u......
> Hi,
>
> This is a snippet of the XML I am dealing with,
>
> <LOG_MESSAGE type="START DATATABLE" date="03-04-2006" time="16:45:20" >
>
> <MESSAGE_TEXT><![CDATA[\\gbahes75\Projects\AddressService\Datapool\GetTestID.sdd]]></MESSAGE_TEXT>
> </LOG_MESSAGE>
>
> There is a number of <LOG_MESSAGE> elements
>
> My aim in the xsl in pseudo code is;
>
> IF THE <LOG_MESSAGE> ATTRIBUTE TYPE = "START DATATABLE" THEN
> GET THE <MESSAGE_TEXT> VALUE
> END IF
>
> This is my XSL
>
> <xsl:for-each select = "LOG_MESSAGE">
> <xsl:if test="LOG_MESSAGE[type='START DATATABLE']">
> <xsl:variable name="host2" select="MESSAGE_TEXT"/>
> <BR>
> xsl:value-of select="substring-after($host2,'\')"/>
> </BR>
> </xsl:if>
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> note: (I actually want the last field [GetTestID.sdd] of the
> <MESSAGE_TEXT> but that is a different problem)
>
> I am using XSLDebugger, but when I attempt to run the XSL I get the
> error:
>
> 'A reference to variable 'host2' cannot be resolved. The variable or
> parameter
> may not be defined, or it may not be in scope'
>
> And I am not sure why.
>
> Cheers
>
> Aidy
>
Your XSLT is abit odd, you need @ before an attribute, you could just do:
<xsl:for-each select = "LOG_MESSAGE[@type = 'START DATATABLE'">
  <br>
  <xsl:value-of select="substring-after(MESSAGE_TEXT, '\')"/>
  </br>
</xsl:for-each>

Not sure why the variable was out of scope though.
If you actually want the last field in XSLT 1.0 you probably need to 
recursively process the value, applying substring-after whilst there is 
still a \ in the string.


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