Re: dynamic external images

At 2003-05-30 14:50 -0400, Ai, Larry wrote:
>I try the following:
>
><xsl:variable name="image">
>     <!-- the following template return an image file name -->
>     <xsl:call-template name="create-image"/>
></xsl:variable>
>
><fo:external-graphic src="$image"/>
>
>FOP does not allow variable used in the attribute.

You are triggering an XSLT problem, not an XSL-FO problem.  Use an 
attribute value template to put a variable's value into a result tree 
element's attribute:

   <fo:external-graphic src="{$image}"/>

I hope this helps.

................... Ken


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