Hello Thomas,
Is it possible to nest <xsl: value-of> tags like this?
No.
If not, is there another way to look up the value of <ntname> from the
other document?
This is how I would do it:
Outside your template, bind the other document to a variable:
<xsl:variable name="lookupdoc" select="document('ShareWebUsers.xml')"/>
Set up a key to retrieve persons by id element child:
<xsl:key name="personsbyID" match="person" use="id"/>
(In your code, you have "person[id=..." so I've said use="id"; change to
@id if you're actually wanting an attribute not an element)
Then inside your template:
<xsl:for-each select="//*[./@filename != '']">
<xsl:variable name="ownedby" select="../@ownedby"/>
<!-- binds the ownedby to a variable so we can get it after
we change context -->
<xsl:for-each select="$lookupdoc">
<!-- change context to lookup doc -->
<xsl:value-of select="key('personsbyID',$ownedby)/ntname"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
If you wanted to skip the whole key thing you could simply do
<xsl:value-of
select="document('ShareWebUsers.xml')//person[id=$ownedby]"/>]/ntname"/>
but that's relatively more expensive (since ShareWebUsers.xml will have to
be traversed again and again, and maybe even parsed repeatedly depending on
your processor).
<xsl:value-of select="$lookupdoc//person[id=$ownedby]"/>]/ntname"/>
may be somewhat better but is still costly compared to using the key.
HTH--
Wendell
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