[oXygen-user] Help with XPath -- SOLVED

[Mary Anthony]

OK, I was able to solve this.  My problem being that I forgot the
varialbe_keywords.ditamap was not always *being processed* --- so it was an
external file located in the temp output dir during processing. So, the
solution is, set a path to the file:

 <!-- get the location of variable_keywords.ditamap -->
    <xsl:param name="PATH2PROJ">
      <xsl:apply-templates
select="/processing-instruction('path2project-uri')[1]"
mode="get-path2project"/>
  </xsl:param>
  <xsl:param name="WORKDIR">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="/processing-instruction('workdir-uri')[1]"
mode="get-work-dir"/>
  </xsl:param>
  <xsl:variable name="VAR-FILE"
select="concat($WORKDIR,$PATH2PROJ,'variable_keywords.ditamap')"/>

Then use the doc() function to point to this external file:

<xsl:comment>
<xsl:value-of
select="doc($VAR-FILE)/map/keydef[@keys='var_release_version']/topicmeta/keywords/keyword"/>

  </xsl:comment>


If anyone knows a more elegant solution, feel free to post it back.

Mary

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Mary Anthony <> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am adding a comment to each file that contains a release number. The
> release number is one of many variables defined in a
> *variable_keywords.ditamap* file. This file is a child of my main
> *ditamap*.
>
> Using the XPath Builder, I tested and found this path located the node I
> needed. (Below is a pic showing the path succeeding.)  When I encode this
> path in the dita2webhelp.xsl file, the transformation succeeds but the
> node's RELEASE_VERSION content is not output:
>
>    <xsl:comment>
> <xsl:value-of
> select="/map/keydef[@keys='var_release_version']/topicmeta/keywords/keyword"/>
>
>   </xsl:comment>
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
>
>
>
> PICTURE SHOWING THE PATH
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
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