<ajrijken@h...> wrote in message 
news:1193991180.221530.287380@1......
>I have a XML a want to transform to another XML
> with the following commentline
> <!-- File generated on 15.10.2007 10:50:43 -->
>
> I need to extract the date and time and put that in a attribute
> something like this:
>
> comment
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>
> <xsl:if test="comment()">
>      <xsl:variable name="Datum"><xsl:copy-of select="."/></
> xsl:variable> <= here I like to do the extracting of the date
> </xsl:if>
> <Field>
>  <xsl:attribute name="Name">DATE/xsl:attribute>
>   <xsl:attribute name="Value"><xsl:value-of select="$Datum"/></
> xsl:attribute>
> </Field>
> </xsl:template>
>
> This is not working I get the message Invalid variable referenceError
> in XPath expression, Invalid variable reference
>
> Any Idea on how to extract the date from teh comment?
>
> Astrid
>
Looks like your variable is out of scope. Change it to:
<xsl:variable name="Datum">
  <xsl:if test=...
</xsl:variable>

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