Re: reading link value from external xml file with variable

No, you must evaluate the substrings and concatenate the results with 
the static parts.
Joerg

> So I can not use 
> <a href="{xalan:evaluate($monthdec)}"> ?
> Where $monthdec points to external variable, which reads
> the final value from a external xml file.
>
> Cheers,
> Jarkko
>
>
> > 1. /cbroker/XMLServ/XMLHan?command=list&amp;period=
> > 2. {/XDocList/@view}                                     => evaluate()
> > 3. &amp;count=
> > 4. {/XDocList/@offset}                                   => evaluate()
> > 5. &amp;orderby=date&amp;status=1
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Joerg
> >
> > Jarkko(_dot_)Moilanen(_at_)uta(_dot_)fi wrote:
> >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I have a situation which I encountered this morning 
> > > and I got stuck with it. 
> > >
> > > I have a main xslt file into which I import other xslt files and
> > > data from several xml files. 
> > >
> > > The problem is generic linkvalue in the result html file.
> > > In the main xslt file i have:
> > >
> > > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
> > > 	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> > >         
> > >         <xsl:import href="Sort_Notunsigned.xml" />
> > >         <xsl:import href="recent.xsl" />
> > >         <xsl:import href="statistics.xsl" />
> > >         <xsl:import href="viewcommands.xsl" />
> > >         <xsl:import href="sortcommands.xsl" />
> > >
> > > Here the line where I import Sort_Notunsigned.xml contains
> > > lines like this:
> > >
> > >   <sortbydateasc>/cbroker/XMLServ/XMLHan?command=list&amp;
> > >   period={/XDocList/@view}&amp;count={/XDocList/@offset}&amp;
> > >   orderby=date&amp;status=1
> > >   </sortbydateasc>
> > >
> > > As you can see, it is a linkvalue /command to be sended on click
> > >
> > > The value of <sortbydateasc> is called by a variable in 
> > > sortcommands.xsl (which is imported to main xslt)like this:
> > > <xsl:variable name="dateasc">           
> > > <xsl:value-of
> > select="document('commands.xml')/xslt/notunsigned/sorting/sortbydateasc"/>
> >
> > > </xsl:variable>
> > >
> > > No the problem is obvious. When the value comes from xml file, 
> > > the part where it should get {/XDocList/@view} from the input xml
> > file, 
> >
> > > it does not do it. Same thing with {/XDocList/@offset}. 
> > >
> > > I think it would be possible to do it if the commands.xml would be 
> > > commands.xsl?
> > > Reason why I have separated the transformation into several 
> > > files, is that I want to make it easier to maintain and 
> > > change the commmand values in one place and have the affect
> > > in several places.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Jarkko

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