Delaney Robin wrote:
Is it possible to assign variables outside of XSL which can be accessed
from
within (during transformation).
Not using system variables, like in a shell script or .bat file.
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Or is there
any suggested method to pass info into XSL ?
Yes, you are looking for parameter semantics (<xsl:param>), but the usage is
context-specific.
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I need to create extra elements in an XML
file to hold values like date-time, username, filename(can I get this
from
document()?), servername etc...........
Use this syntax inside the XSLT source:
<xsl:transform ....>
<xsl:param name="date-time"/>
<xsl:param name="username"/>
<xsl:param name="filename"/>
<xsl:param name="servername"/>
.... rest of transform goes here ....
</xsl:transform>
Outside the transform syntax for passing in parameters varies according to
vendor and execution context. For example, in Xalan-J, using the java
executable class "Process", you would write a command line something like
this (pardon the long line overflow):
java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -IN file.xml -XSL trans.xsl -PARAM
date-time "2003-02-03T11:35" -PARAM username roger -PARAM filename
file.xml -PARAM servername hikimi
On the other hand, if you were running the transformation from within a java
program, adding the parameters would look something like this:
javax.xml.transform.Transformer transformer;
... other code to instantiate and configure "transformer" omitted ...
transformer.setParameter("date-time", "2003-02-03T11:35");
transformer.setParameter("username", "roger");
transformer.setParameter("filename", "file.xml");
transformer.setParameter("servername", "hikimi");
I hope this helps!
-- Roger Glover
glover_roger(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com
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