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RE: Using the document function
- From: "Passin,Thomas B. (Tom)" <tpassin at mitretek dot org>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:21:31 -0400
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Using the document function
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[ RShonk@flowserve.com]
>
>... I had
> expected to be able to use <xsl:variable name="file1"
> select="document ('filename1')"/>, etc. in my XSLT
> stylesheet with the file name determined by the values in the
> xml file. This apparently will not work since the URI value
> for filename cannot be assigned at run-time.
You can use a variable or parameter as the argument of document(), like
this:
<xsl:variable name='fileurl' select='"file:///d:\test\xsl\a.xml"'/>
<xsl:variable name='file' select='document($fileurl)'/>
You could pass in the file names you want to use as parameters.
Cheers.
Tom P
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