Re: [xsl] Re: document()

["Jonathan Perret" <jonathan at holylabs dot com>]

Stuart,

If you need to access the input document when the context is inside
another document, there is a simpler way through the use of a variable :

 <xsl:transform [blah blah]>
   <xsl:variable name="root" select="/" />
   <xsl:template match="foo">
     <xsl:for-each select="document('someOtherDoc.xml')>
     <!-- We move the context into some other doc -->
       <xsl:for-each select="$root">
       <!-- And here we are back in the original (whatever it is) -->
       </xsl:for-each>
     </xsl:for-each>
   </xsl:template>
 </xsl:transform>

Simpler and almost certainly faster (the input document does not have
to be parsed twice). And you don't need to pass an external parameter.

Cheers,
--Jonathan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Brown" <stuart.brown@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>

> It might not be the most sophisticated solution, but I define a global
parameter
> docURI, use references to this, and pass the value to the processor at the
> command line, thus:
>
> <xsl:transform [blah blah]>
>   <xsl:param name="docURI">index.xml</xsl:param><!-- My default -->
>   <xsl:template match="foo">
>     <xsl:for-each select="document('someOtherDoc.xml')>
>     <!-- We move the context into some other doc -->
>       <xsl:for-each select="document($docURI)">
>       <!-- And here we are back in the original (whatever it is) -->
>       </xsl:for-each>
>     </xsl:for-each>
>   </xsl:template>
> </xsl:transform>



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