passing parameters on the xsltproc command line doesn't work
xsltproc --param test alpha foo.xsl foo.xml
the param does not get passed and ends up as ""
In a nutshell do a double escaping at the shell prompt:
xsltproc --param test "'alpha'" foo.xsl foo.xml
i.e. the string value is surrounded by " and ' then terminated by '
and ". Libxslt interpret the parameter values as XPath expressions, so
the string ->alpha<- is intepreted as the node set
matching this string. You really want ->'alpha'<- to
be passed to the processor. And to allow this you need to escape the
quotes at the shell level using ->"'alpha'"<- .
or use
xsltproc --stringparam test alpha foo.xsl foo.xml
