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From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
Karl J. Stubsjoen
Sent: 29 February 2004 21:45
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [xsl] Thinking Out loud - XML or XSL for boiler messages
Precisely what I was looking for...
I've asked similar question before, but because the data I
was retrieving was wrapped within an attribute this sort of
template processing would not work. At this point, I do not
have this trouble, the XML source is 100% my conception (the
other is an ADO XML recordset).
A more elegant way would be to have a separate xml file with lookup
values
xml file
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<resource>
<para>Dr <firstname/>, Please read this letter</para>
</resource>
Lookup xml file ( lookup.xml )
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<resource>
<firstname>Jim</firstname>
</resource>
xsl file
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method = "html"/>
<xsl:variable name="lookup-data"
select="document('lookup.xml')"/>
<xsl:template match="resource">
<html>
<title></title>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="para"/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="para">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:variable name="currentname" select="local-name()"/>
<xsl:value-of
select="$lookup-data/resource/child::*[local-name()=$currentname]"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
This lets u generate a lookup file to refer to, without generating a
whole bunch of xsl:templates...though u could use this technique with
xsl:param. This assumes though that you have no useful markup embedded
in your text other then tokens to be replaced, though you could easily
handle this by either using a namespace on the elements and a general
matching template for those, for example html:* elements could be
embedded in text with a matching xsl:template to just process them
normally...up to you.
Once again there are other methods.
gl, Jim
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