Question

I’ve an xsl:variable like this,

<xsl:variable name="flag" 
       select="(/node1/@attr = 1) or (/node2/@attr = 1)"/>

Is it possible to read the attribute value without specifying the node name? so i can elimniate the or condition. Basically I feed two types of xml to the xslt, node1 and node2 are the root node names.

Answer 1

Use:

/*/@attr = 1 or /*/@attr = 2

If you need to eliminate the or opertor, do:

contains(' 1 2 ', concat(' ', /*/@attr, ' '))

In XPath 2.0 (XSLT 2.0) this can further be abbreviated to:

/*/@attr = (1, 2)