David Carlisle, thank you for putting me on the right track! Wow, I
was way off in the weeds.
XSL is overwhelming and although I sometimes feel like it is beyond my
reach, I'm not going to give up. All I know is that reading about
this stuff is disorienting and humiliating - you gotta get to the
keyboard and try. XSL will be learned by doing, not by reading IMHO.
I wish someone would publish a series of exercises that I could
perform, ones that build on one another. Maybe I will re-visit Jeni
Tennison's book again.
So, your beautifully crafted instruction:
<xsl:value-of
select="for $s in $skus return
key('sku',$s[document('mySkus.xml')/skus/sku[starts-with(.,$s)]],$root)/name"
separator=", "/>
leads me to read more on sequence expressions. I've got to go figure
out why the <xsl:for-each> was not the correct way, how the locally
defined <$s> variable works, and how the brackets <[]> work.
Interesting that IE and Firefox fail to transform using the stylesheet
where Saxon does it just fine. I guess they don't have built-in
version 2 XSLT and/or XPATH features?... I'll have to figure out how
to call a Saxon transformation from VBA when the time comes.
Anyways, thanks, and boy is the World Wide Web (this mailing list) cool!
- Ronnie
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