Question

I am trying to learn XSLT. I am simply getting crazy. Variables should be declared within xsl:variables entity and instantiated with their names having the $ symbol just before them (like perl variables), right? Why on earth this code:

<xsl:stylesheet version='1.0'    xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>      <xsl:template match='/'>         <xsl:variable name='color' select=''red'' />         <p>$color</p>     </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> 

results in the literal string: ‘$color’ being written parsing a simple non empty xml document using the msxsl parser? Many thanks

Answer 1

Use <xsl:value-of select='$color'/> instead of writing $color directly to the document.

See also this question.