Re: data source as parameter?

Martin Honnen wrote:
> Data source is a rather general term, it is not clear from that term
> what you are asking about. That code with all the JavaScript files and
> libraries is a bit convoluted to understand what you are doing, I guess
> you are passing in a DOM node (e.g. XML DOM document) as a parameter to
> the stylesheet to further process it in the stylesheet as a node set.
> Firefox 1.5 and later (but not Firefox 1.0) support that, yes, as does
> Opera 9. MSXML 3 (and later), the XSLT processors you can use with IE,
> also allows XML DOM nodes as parameters passed in. Firefox 1.5 and later
> and Opera 9 also allow you to pass in an XPathResult
> (<http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-XPath/xpath.html#XPathResult>) you
> would get using the W3C DOM Level 3 XPath API those browsers support.

ok

> There is no general requirement however in the XSLT specification to
> support such parameter types. And in your example you seem to load an
> XML file (e.g. cutecompanies.xml) with script, you can also do that
> within XSLT with the document function XSLT provides (e.g.
>    <xsl:for-each
> select="document('cutecompanies.xml')/data/companies/company">
> ). The document function is a requirement to be supported by any XSLT
> processor to allow loading of XML. Note sure Opera 9.0 currently does.

well, I couldn't use any 'built-in' xsl functionality to load the
document, as I needed to use the document elsewhere (and it's generated
by a fairly expensive server-side process, so calling it up multiple
times just isn't useful :) so I had to think of another way to do it.

Is there a way to specify a document to be included from javascript?
(perhaps found in javascript variable somewhere)  The way I did it
seems to work, but I want to make sure I'm doing things 'correctly' ..
so I don't get started off with this XSLTProcessor stuff on a bad foot
:)

Thanks for your reply.

-Jeremy