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RE: general problem followup
- From: "Andrew Welch" <andrew at thebristoldirectory dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:49:10 -0000
- Subject: RE: [xsl] general problem followup
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Of course, I could always call another stylesheet - one that displays all
the elements - and pass to that the name/location of the node whose leaves I
want it to display... but the problem still arises of how do I found out
which XML file the stylesheet is currently being applied to?
Or is it possible to have a temporary node-set in javascript (taken from the
current xml), and apply the new stylesheet to that (so that it doesnt need
to know the name of the current xml file)?
So I guess Im asking, can you have a stylesheet that gets applied to some
xml, that has a funtion (or whatever) that will apply another stylesheet to
a section of the xml, without the stylesheet ever knowing the filename of
the xml...(!) ?
Once again, apologies to all that dont get my poor explanation, and the fact
that its a little heavy for a friday afternoon
andrew
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[mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Andrew Welch
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 2:36 PM
To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
Subject: [xsl] general problem
Hi all,
Imagine I have a set of nodes like this:
<root>
<a>
<b>
<c>
<d>
<e>
</a>
<a>
<b>
<c>
<d>
<e>
</a>
</root>
I apply a stylesheet to the xml to output a table that displays certain
elements of each <a> such as:
<tr>
<td>b , c, d</td>
</tr>
Say I want to include a button next to that row that, when clicked, opens a
window displaying -all- the elements for that <a>.
I can do this by calling a javascript function, passing the position of the
<a> node as a parameter, and using the DOM to extract the information I
want. However, this currently relies on me hard-coding the name of the xml
file (xmlObj.load('xmlfile')) into the function, which then makes the
stylesheet useless for all but one xmlfile.
If you understand what Im asking ;) is there a better way of doing this?
Thanks to anyone on my wavelength, apolgies to everyone else
cheers
andrew
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