Many thanks for the replies so far. I'm now progressing to
look at the mapping file or "high-level description of a
stereotyped transformation", and was wondering whether I
could use xpath statements in this file to identify data I
want to extract from particular elements/attributes, or
identify even the elements themselves.
The question that subsequently arises when creating a mapping
file as such
is: Can one pass xpath statements as variables into
templates, and then act on them (against the source document)?
No you can't (except with extensions such as xx:evaluate()); but if you
are generating a stylesheet from your configuratoin file, rather than
interpreting it, this isn't a problem.
Michael Kay
Thanks,
Alistair - alistair(_dot_)power(_at_)csw(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk
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It sounds to me as if you should treat your "configuration
file" as a high-level description of a stereotyped
transformation, and use it to generate a specific XSLT
stylesheet for a particular transformation. You can do this
stylesheet generation in XSLT, of course.
Michael Kay
Software AG
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