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Asked: 2026-05-20T09:49:57+00:00

<xsl:variable name=filterValue >@subject = ‘Subject To Filter On'</xsl:variable> <xsl:for-each select=$Rows[$filterValue]> It seems to me

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<xsl:variable name="filterValue"
 >@subject = 'Subject To Filter On'</xsl:variable>
<xsl:for-each select="$Rows[$filterValue]">

It seems to me that the $filterValue is being treated as a literal string rather than being evaluated. How can I make it so that the variable’s value is evaluated instead?

Desired result:

<xsl:for-each select="$Rows[@subject = 'Subject To Filter On']">

I apologize if this has been answered before, I don’t know much terminology about XSL so I’m having trouble searching online. Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Dynamic evaluation of XPath expressions is not supported in both XSLT 1.0 and XSLT 2.0.

    Usually, there are workarounds.

    In this specific case you can have (global/external) parameters:

      <xsl:param name="attrName" select="'subject'"/>
  <xsl:param name="attrValue" select="'Subject To Filter On'"/>

    and then in your code:

    <xsl:for-each select="$Rows[@*[name()=$attrName] = $attrValue]">
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