Symphony.

Hi guys, I'm starting with XSLT & Co. and I've run into a problem.

I have two sections: call them "article" (because there's always only one) and "last-articles" (more of them). They've got the same "tree structure" inside, but the nodes have different names.

I want to render them in the same way, so instead of copying an utility and changing "article" for "last-articles", I tried to reuse my existing templates.

I've created a variable in my "master" XSL file:

------8<--SNIP------
<xsl:template match="/">

  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="$current-page = 'last'">
      <xsl:variable name="article-element" select="'last-articles'"/>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
      <xsl:variable name="article-element" select="'article'"/>
    </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
------8<--SNIP------

And I tried to use it this way:

------8<--SNIP------
<xsl:template name="get-article">
  <xsl:for-each select="/data/$article-element/entry">
    <div class="post span-9">
------8<--SNIP------

instead of doing something like: choose -> when $article-element = 'last-articles', <div with all 'last-articles' paths ..., otherwise <div with all 'article' paths.

But the XSLT Processor doesn't like me. (Even when I try to surround the $article-element with curly braces.)

XSLTProcessor::importStylesheet(): xsl:for-each : could not compile select expression '/data/$article-element/entry'

How do you solve that? Should I think about it differently? Should I just stop being lazy and start manually copying these templates? (That's the only 100% possible way I see now) Wouldn't that be non-DRY? Couldn't PHP's XSLT engine use something like, I don't know, dynamic two-way processing?

Thanks in advance :)

I may have just solved it with

*[entry[published]]

instead of the whole variable thing. Will update this when I'll have more information! #excited

F*** yes! :) Damn, that was satisfying.

My idea came from this link. I'll have to dive deeper into that. Some nice selector powers there :D

select="/data/*[name()=$article-element]/entry"

:-)

F*** yes! :) Damn, that was satisfying.

Hah, I think we all can relate to that. :-)