I am using Xalan C++ v1.5 on OpenVMS and am trying to create extension
functions that will return data from an RMS file (no SQL available).
This works fine and I can read all the data I want one record at a time;
however I have a problem trying return a results list from a search.
The following is basically what i am doing now
XSL
<xsl:template match="query"/>
<query>
<key><xsl:value-of select="@data-item"/></key>
<data><xsl:value-of
select="external:get_data(@key,@data-item)"/></data>
</query>
</xsl:template>
XML-in
<xml>
<query match="12-34" data-item="A">
<query match="12-567" data-item="A">
<query match="12-897" data-item="A">
<query match="12-345" data-item="A">
</xml>
XML-out
<query>
<key>12-34</key>
<data>XYZ</data>
</query>
The disadvantage with this method is that the XML must contain all the
keys for the records I require.
The following code fragments should indicate what I am trying to do
XSL
<xsl:template match="query"/>
<xsl:for-each select="external:do_query(@match,@data-item)"/>
<query>
<key><xsl:value-of select="@current-key"/></key>
<data><xsl:value-of select="@current-data)"/></data>
</query>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
XML-in
<xml>
<query key="12-*" data-item="A">
</xml>
XML-out
<query>
<key>12-34</key>
<data>XYZ</data>
</query>
The XML contains only the a query statement. This implies that do_query
can modify the (nodeset) source xml to add the following node(s)
<current current-key="12-34" current-data="XYZ"/>
Is this possible, or is there a better way? Xalan does not seem to allow
the addition of nodes to a nodeset within an extension function.
The following (test code [derived from Saxon range]) returns an error when
run
XalanDOMString ws("12-34");
XPathExecutionContext::BorrowReturnMutableNodeRefList
result(executionContext);
XalanText* wNode =
context->getOwnerDocument()->createTextNode(ws);
result->addNode(static_cast<XalanNode*>(wNode));
return
executionContext.getXObjectFactory().createNodeSet(result);
The alternative of course is that I try an implement a loop for all seach
matches in the xslt with appropriate extension functions that use
createString() and return single nodes only.
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