Re: [xsl] merging xml's using XSLT, merge.xslt

Hi Abel,
I have been using libxslt, libxml2 and its api's. I know that the xslt file and 
the xml file will be parsed by libxslt and the stylesheet will be applied over 
that. (There is a thread before this, where I have said abt merge.xslt and 
merge.xml)

But I wanted to know more about "passing parameters to XSLT". I'm merging 2 or 
more XML's and for which I specify the static file names. Instead I wanted to 
give the DOM tree as input to the XSLT.

Mike Suggested as below, but I'm not sure how to do that.

> > > > > You could supply the two input DOMs to the stylesheet as
> > > > > parameters, and replace the calls on document() by references
> > > > > to the parameters.
merge.xslt is calling as,
   <xslt:call-template name="m:merge">
      <xslt:with-param name="nodes1" select="document($file1,/*)/node()" />
      <xslt:with-param name="nodes2" select="document($file2,/*)/node()" />
   </xslt:call-template>

How do I pass the DOM tree, instead of $file1 and $file2 in document( )?

Can anyone help me out of this.

Thanks
Senthil Nathan R


On 9/14/07, Abel Braaksma <abel(_dot_)online(_at_)xs4all(_dot_)nl> wrote:
> Hi Senthil,
>
> Libxslt has its own specific list. Please use that one for libxslt
> specific questions.
> If you do a search in the archive (through google, they are re-indexing
> it):
> http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=site:http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xslt/+command+line&spell=1
>
> And if it is not there, there's of course the documentation and faq
> section for libxslt.
>
> List archives libxslt: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xslt/
> FAQ: http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/FAQ.html
> Command line: http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/xsltproc2.html
>
> From the FAQ, if you want a document node set as a parameter, since
> they are using xpath instructions that get interpreted at root level, it
> shouldn't be too hard to make your xpath look something like this on the
> command line: document('http://myfile.bla.bla.xml'), possibly with a
> selective xpath statement.
>
> Cheers,
> -- Abel Braaksma
>
> PS: you would have gotten this information (sparsely but clear enough)
> with just issuing the command "xsltproc" on the commandline.
>
>
> Senthil Nathan wrote:
> > But, I'm using libxslt. So any samples like how to pass the DOM trees
> > as parameters to stylesheet in libxslt??
> >
> > Thanks
> > Senthil
> >
> > On 9/14/07, Abel Braaksma <abel(_dot_)online(_at_)xs4all(_dot_)nl> wrote:
> >
> > > Senthil Nathan wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Michael,
> > > > How about the other option of passing DOM's as parameters to stylesheet.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > > You could supply the two input DOMs to the stylesheet as
> > > > > > parameters, and replace the calls on document() by references
> > > > > > to the parameters.
> > > > Any sample of doing the same would be helpful.
> > > If you can use Saxon, it goes like this (from the documentation pages):
> > >
> > > A param preceded by a leading plus sign (+) is interpreted as a filename
> > > or directory. The content of the file is parsed as XML, and the
> > > resulting document node is passed to the stylesheet as the value of the
> > > parameter. If the parameter value is a directory, then all the
> > > immediately contained files are parsed as XML, and the resulting
> > > sequence of document nodes is passed as the value of the parameter. For
> > > example, +lookup=lookup.xml sets the value of the stylesheet parameter
> > > lookup to the document node at the root of the tree representing the
> > > parsed contents of the file lookup.xml.
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > -- Abel Braaksma
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