How to use parameter or variable values ​​as a node name?

Question

I am trying to use the value of a parameter or variable as the name of the node inside the select value, but so far has failed.

So my XML is as follows.

<Data> <Name>John Smith</Name> <Date>28112012</Date> <Phone>iphone</Phone> <Car>BMW</Car> </Data> 

And my incomplete xslt looks below.

 <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0" exclude-result-prefixes="#all"> <xsl:param name="nodename" select="'Name'"/> <xsl:template match="/Data"> <Output> <xsl:value-of select="{$nodename}"/> </Output> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> 

Ideally, I want out

 <Output>John Smith</Output> 

Is there any way to do this using XSLT? I want to be able to select a suitable node based on user selection.

thanks

SC

Answer 1

Surprisingly let me know if this works:

 <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0" exclude-result-prefixes="#all"> <xsl:param name="nodename" select="'Name'"/> <xsl:template match="/Data"> <Output> <xsl:value-of select="//*[name()=$nodename]" /> </Output> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>