for example I have a table or equavalent XML have
below information
1, a
2, b
3, c
4, d
In my stylesheet, I only have a, b, c, d value
but I need to use 1, 2, 3, 4 as a substitution
Set up a document called lookup.xml as follows:
<table>
<entry code="1" val="a"/>
<entry code="2" val="b"/>
...
</table>
Then you can do:
document('lookup.xml')/table/entry[(_at_)val=$val]/@code
For convenience, you can put the table inside the stylesheet - in
standard XSLT 1.0 you can reference the stylesheet as document(''), but
more efficiently you can put the lookup table in a variable and
reference it with the extension function xx:node-set().
For further efficiency with large lookup tables, learn about xsl:key and
the key function.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael(_dot_)H(_dot_)Kay(_at_)ntlworld(_dot_)com
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