RE: [xsl] Transform Problem Too Much IO

["Scott Purcell" <spurcell at vertisinc dot com>]

But how? Maybe I am missing something here. Could you possibly give me a little more information on how this could be accomplished?


-----Original Message-----
From: Antonio Fiol Bonnín [mailto:fiol@w3ping.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 2:49 PM
To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
Subject: Re: [xsl] Transform Problem Too Much IO


As you have written, these are <param/>s, so you'd better use 
<xsl:param/> as Jim Fuller suggested.

You can pass them directly from Java in your servlet.


Antonio


Scott Purcell wrote:

>Thanks for the response. I am trying to think through this. The values are coming from a web page as http params. I would like to use the xsl:params but I would not have any clue how to get the parameter value from the servlet to the xml file as the value for a param.
>
>Here is a piece of my xml that I have currently: I am trying to insert a string for users to change colors of the background and foreground of the display.
>
><ad_content>
>  <label>hidden</label>
>  <default_value>This is the default value</default_value>
>  <user_value>This is some user input</user_value>
></ad_content>
>on and on with these
>
>
>I want to concat the following nodes:
><param>
><bgcolor>red</bgcolor>
><fgcolor>yellow</fgcolor>
></param>
>
>where the color red and yellow come from parameters that are handed to my servlet that uses xalan to throw the display to the browser.
>
>Thanks,	
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: James Fuller [mailto:james.fuller@o-idev.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 1:38 PM
>To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>Subject: Re: [xsl] Transform Problem Too Much IO
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>why not use <xsl:param /> and bring in the data that way ?
>or maybe just write the raw nodes to a seperate xml file and use the
>document() call,
>
>though it is difficult to see why you want to do this, as we do not have any
>example xml/xslt
>
>
>
>cheers, jim fuller
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Scott Purcell" <spurcell@vertisinc.com>
>To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 7:25 PM
>Subject: [xsl] Transform Problem Too Much IO
>
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>>Hello,
>>I have a problem that I could use some input into. I have a xml file which
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>describes a html document (textareas, selects, form elements).
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>>I have always included a stylesheet in the xml document which points to a
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>xsl file. Management now wants us to transform in the server using xalan.
>And that is their choice and I can do that.
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>>The problem is, I need to insert a few nodes into the xml before
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>transforming. The nodes I am inserting are describes in the xsl, but in
>order for me to insert a string of nodes, I have to open the xml file (file
>io), substring the new insert in, then write the file back out to disk(more
>file io).
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>>I have the prototype working, but we cannot go live, due to the IO
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>problem. How can I insert a couple of nodes into a xml file, without beating
>up my system? I also looked at xalan where I am transforming the doc, and it
>looks like it only likes file ans filestreams.
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>>Could someone shed some light on this?
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>>Thanks,
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