Combining static XML with a document

["Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am having a lot of trouble using XSL to combine an external XML document
with some static data embedded in my stylesheet.  An example of this would
be combining a data file with statically defined headers or in my case I am
generating a page and I want to attach a menu to it.  The headers/menu are
statically defined and then I want to use XSL to style them.

I initially tried to do this by unrolling the arrays of menu items. This
ends up with a kludgy XSL sheet (see attached file) and complicated calls to
the include file:

  <xsl:call-template name="banner">
   <xsl:with-param name="page" select="$page"/>
   <xsl:with-param name="onload" select="string('load()')"/>
   <xsl:with-param name="menu1">Search</xsl:with-param>
   <xsl:with-param name="url1">a</xsl:with-param>
   <xsl:with-param name="menu2">Results</xsl:with-param>
   <xsl:with-param name="url2">b</xsl:with-param>
   <xsl:with-param name="menu3">New</xsl:with-param>
   <xsl:with-param name="url3">c</xsl:with-param>
   <xsl:with-param name="tab" select="$tab"/>
  </xsl:call-template>

After thinking about this for a while I realized that I am actually trying
to merge two documents - the external XML and the static headers.

I can move the menu definition off into another XML file and use document()
to include it (whenever XT gets the document function).  But this brings up
the question, should document() allow an inline XML fragment,
document("<tag>xml goes here</tag>"), instead of only external files?

Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxxxxx

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0";
		default-space="strip"			
		xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"; result-ns="">
	
  <xsl:template name="banner">
		<xsl:param name="menu1"/>
		<xsl:param name="menu2"/>
		<xsl:param name="menu3"/>
		<xsl:param name="menu4"/>
		<xsl:param name="menu5"/>
		<xsl:param name="menu6"/>
		<xsl:param name="menu7"/>
		<xsl:param name="menu8"/>
		<xsl:param name="url1"/>
		<xsl:param name="url2"/>
		<xsl:param name="url3"/>
		<xsl:param name="url4"/>
		<xsl:param name="url5"/>
		<xsl:param name="url6"/>
		<xsl:param name="url7"/>
		<xsl:param name="url8"/>
		<xsl:param name="tab"/>

		<table class="header" id="header" width="100%">
			<tr><td style="padding-left:2"><table class="menu"><tr>
				<xsl:call-template name="menu-item">
					<xsl:with-param name="menu" select="$menu1"/>
					<xsl:with-param name="url" select="$url1"/>
					<xsl:with-param name="tab" select="$tab"/>
				</xsl:call-template>	
				<xsl:call-template name="menu-item">
					<xsl:with-param name="menu" select="$menu2"/>
					<xsl:with-param name="url" select="$url2"/>
					<xsl:with-param name="tab" select="$tab"/>
				</xsl:call-template>	
				<xsl:call-template name="menu-item">
					<xsl:with-param name="menu" select="$menu3"/>
					<xsl:with-param name="url" select="$url3"/>
					<xsl:with-param name="tab" select="$tab"/>
				</xsl:call-template>	
				<xsl:call-template name="menu-item">
					<xsl:with-param name="menu" select="$menu4"/>
					<xsl:with-param name="url" select="$url4"/>
					<xsl:with-param name="tab" select="$tab"/>
				</xsl:call-template>	
				<xsl:call-template name="menu-item">
					<xsl:with-param name="menu" select="$menu5"/>
					<xsl:with-param name="url" select="$url5"/>
					<xsl:with-param name="tab" select="$tab"/>
				</xsl:call-template>	
				<xsl:call-template name="menu-item">
					<xsl:with-param name="menu" select="$menu6"/>
					<xsl:with-param name="url" select="$url6"/>
					<xsl:with-param name="tab" select="$tab"/>
				</xsl:call-template>	
				<xsl:call-template name="menu-item">
					<xsl:with-param name="menu" select="$menu7"/>
					<xsl:with-param name="url" select="$url7"/>
					<xsl:with-param name="tab" select="$tab"/>
				</xsl:call-template>	
				<xsl:call-template name="menu-item">
					<xsl:with-param name="menu" select="$menu8"/>
					<xsl:with-param name="url" select="$url8"/>
					<xsl:with-param name="tab" select="$tab"/>
				</xsl:call-template>	
				</tr></table>
				</td>
				<td align="right" nowrap="nowrap" width="100%">
					<a class="header" href="../page/home.xml">Acme Corporation</a>
				</td>
			</tr>
		</table>
  </xsl:template>
  
  <xsl:template name="menu-item">
		<xsl:param name="menu"/>
		<xsl:param name="url"/>
		<xsl:param name="tab"/>
		<xsl:if test="$menu != string('')">
			<td class="tab" valign="center">
			<xsl:if test="$menu=$tab">
				<xsl:attribute name="class">selTab</xsl:attribute>
			</xsl:if>
				<a href="{$url}"><xsl:value-of select="$menu"/></a>
			</td>
		</xsl:if>
  </xsl:template>
			
</xsl:stylesheet>