Question

I need to get the xpath of current node for which i have written an xsl function

<func:function name="fn:getXpath">
    <xsl:variable name="xpath">
        <xsl:for-each select="ancestor-or-self::*">
            <xsl:value-of select="concat($xpath, name())" />
            <xsl:if test="not(position()=last())">
                <xsl:value-of select="concat('/', $xpath)" />
            </xsl:if>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:variable>
    <func:result select="$xpath" />
</func:function>

But when I run this, I’m getting the following error

file:///D:/test.xsl; Line #165; Column #63; Variable accessed before it is bound!
file:///D:/test.xsl; Line #165; Column #63; java.lang.NullPointerException

I’m using xalan 2.7.0. Please help.

Answer 1

You are using the variable $xpath inside the definition of the variable itself:

<func:function name="fn:getXpath">
    <xsl:variable name="xpath">  
        <xsl:for-each select="ancestor-or-self::*">
            <xsl:value-of select="concat($xpath, name())" />   <-------
            <xsl:if test="not(position()=last())">
                <xsl:value-of select="concat('/', $xpath)" />  <-------
            </xsl:if>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:variable>
    <func:result select="$xpath" />
</func:function>

The variable is not known at that point.