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RE: [xsl] Parameters into variables

2008-10-10 06:33:02
It's always useful, rather than saying "it doesn't work", to say exactly how
it fails. Error message? Wrong results?

I can't see anything wrong with your code, it looks perfectly legal to me -
but I'm trying to debug it without the benefit of seeing its output.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Barwell [mailto:jbar(_at_)es(_dot_)co(_dot_)nz] 
Sent: 10 October 2008 11:21
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Parameters into variables

Hello,

XSLT 1.0 (e.g. Firefox 3.0, etc.)

I have a template as follows:

<xsl:template name="getCurrencySymbol">
      <xsl:param name="aCurrency" />
      <xsl:choose>
              <xsl:when test="$aCurrency='AUD'">A$</xsl:when>
              <xsl:when test="$aCurrency='EUR'">&#x20AC;</xsl:when>
              <xsl:when test="$aCurrency='GBP'">&#163;</xsl:when>
              <xsl:when test="$aCurrency='NZD'">NZ$</xsl:when>
              <xsl:when test="$aCurrency='USD'">US$</xsl:when>
              <xsl:otherwise></xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>


At the top of my xsl stylesheet I want to put its value into a global
variable:

<xsl:variable name="theCurrencySymbol">
      <xsl:call-template name="getCurrencySymbol">
              <with-param name="aCurrency" select="'NZD'" />
      </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>

But this does not work. Mangano (2003, p.120) shows that it 
will work if the template is called _without_ a parameter, 
and indeed I am able to do so successfully if I use a global 
variable, e.g. $baseCurrency, and change my getCurrencySymbol 
template so that it uses $baseCurrency (i.e. 
ignoring the $aCurrency parameter).

The problem is that I would like to be able to re-use my 
getCurrencySymbol template elsewhere, but with a specified 
parameter in its call rather than a global.

Is it really not possible to put the result of a template 
into a variable, if that template is being called using a 
parameter? I cannot think why such a minor distinction would 
be in the language.

Cheers!

Joe


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