ParanoidMike wrote:

> Thank you.  And in case there's still room for misunderstanding: if
> "$ThreatXPath is not a result tree fragment, it is a string with an
> XPath
> expression", is there some way I can rewrite my code to turn
> $ThreatXPath into an RTF, so the node-set() I thought I was able to
> achieve would work?

Well a variable bound to a result tree fragment looks like this:
   <xsl:variable name="example">
     <foo>
       <bar/>
     </foo>
   </xsl:variable>
As you can see the contents of the xsl:variable element is nodes that 
form a result tree fragment. Now you could use
   msxsl:node-set($example)
to convert that result tree fragment into a node-set so that you can 
apply all XPath operations on that node-set.

You original attempt seemed to put an XPath expression into the variable 
and hoped to dynamically evaluate the XPath expression. That is not what 
msxsl:node-set is good for. And MSXML does not provide another function 
for that.


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