Re: How to make an XMLDocument as a parameter in a XSLT transformation ?

[email protected] wrote:

> I'm trying to make an XML available as a parameter in a XSLT
> transformation (use case like mixing up business data to be transformed
> to a HTML GUI with say language dependent text data for labels' texts
> or something).
> 
> I'm quite new to the Mozilla API for XML but I know a thing or two
> about MSMXL where i used this approach that has often prooved simple
> and useful.
> 
> Is this possible some way (a way in which i should be able to code the
> xsl only once for BOTH, msxml and Mozilla)? Or are there other
> approaches allowing similar usage?

You could pass in the URL of the secondary XML to the stylesheet and 
then in the stylesheet use the XSLT function named document e.g.
   <xsl:param name="xmlURL" />

   <xsl:value-of select="document($xmlURL)//text[@id=current()/@id]"/>

That approach should be portable between XSLT processors.

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	Martin Honnen
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