Indeed, I often use this approach, especially in cases where the stylesheet is
designed to be called from the command line. But if you want to invoke a
stylesheet that wasn't designed with that in mind, it's still possible to set
any parameter using the ?name=expression notation.
Sometimes it's appropriate to provide multiple "top-level" overlay stylesheets
offering different APIs.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
On 6 Nov 2018, at 10:33, Mukul Gandhi gandhi(_dot_)mukul(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com
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On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:07 PM Jorge .
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Running Saxon from the command line (testing with Saxon-HE 9.2.1.2J—yes, old
as heck—on Bash 3.2.57(1)), is there a way to set the value of a global
parameter of an XSLT2 stylesheet to a sequence of strings?
<xsl:param name="MY_ARRAY" as="xs:string*"/>
When attempting to do it like this:
java -jar saxon9he.jar [options] 'MY_ARRAY="one" "two" "three"'
java -jar saxon9he.jar [options] MY_ARRAY='"one" "two" "three"'
Saxon seemingly interprets spaces as literal, and the value of the parameter
becomes one single string
<xsl:message select="count($MY_ARRAY)"/>
→ 1
instead of interpreting them as separators so that the value of the parameter
contains those three.
This could be done as follows, I think.
Pass a parameter to stylesheet as follows,
MY_ARRAY="one;two;three"
(there's only one string parameter. but we use a delimiter between words. in
this example ; is a delimiter)
In the stylesheet, we declare as follows
<xsl:param name="MY_ARRAY" as="xs:string"/>
Then we need to use fn:tokenize on MY_ARRAY.
You may choose a convenient delimiter for your environment.
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