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Subject: RE: [xsl] dynamic variable name/implementation question From: Ed S <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:55:03 -0700 |
ok. I see. My goal here is to be able to pass in dynamic data to a transformation that is part of a web application. I was just using xalan to unit test the exsl:node-set(), but am using php/sablotron for the app. Does anyone know of a way to get dynamic run-time data into a stylesheet using php/sablotron? That is, without the stylesheet knowing the name of the parameter, but rather can be specified in the source document? I don't beleive using the document() function would work to retrive the result of a php script as XML, because calling a php page from within sablotron would probably just return the source, not the executed output, correct? > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: RE: [xsl] dynamic variable name/implementation question > From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, August 26, 2005 10:31 am > To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > The exsl:node-set() function converts a result tree fragment to a node-set, > it doesn't parse source XML to create a document node. > > The simplest (most standard) approach if you're invoking the transformation > from the command line is probably to put the XML in a file, pass the URI of > that file as a stylesheet parameter, and then load the document from within > the stylesheet using the document() function. > > In Saxon you could pass the parameter as +parameters=doc.xml, the "+" sign > would cause the contents of the file doc.xml to be parsed, and the resulting > document node would be the value of the parameter. AFAIK Xalan has no > equivalent mechanism. > > Michael Kay > http://www.saxonica.com/ > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ed S [mailto:lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: 26 August 2005 15:11 > > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: RE: [xsl] dynamic variable name/implementation question > > > > > > > > > > > The usual solution is that instead of passing your stylesheet three > > > parameters x, y, and z, you should pass it an XML document > > > > > > <param> > > > <x>1</x> > > > <y>2</y> > > > <z>3</z> > > > </param> > > > > > > and then you can navigate this document at will using XPath. > > > > I'm having a bit of trouble doing this. > > I'm running xalan as follows: > > >java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -IN ext.xml -OUT > > ext_out.xml -XSL ext.xsl -PARAM parameters > > "<param-list><a>hello</a><b>goodbye</b></param-list>" > > > > however, when I execute: > > <xsl:value-of select="exsl:node-set($parameters)"/> > > I would expect to get the values of all of the text nodes within, ie: > > hellogoodbye > > > > however, $parameters is resolved as a string: > > <param-list><a>hello</a><b>goodbye< > > /b></param-list> > > > > Maybe I don't understand the purpose of node-set()...
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