Subject: [xsl] Re: Using the document function From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 12:37:13 -0700 (PDT) |
--- RShonk at flowserve dot com wrote: > > I am currently working on a project to dynamically generate PDF > documents > from a servlet. I embedded FOP 0.20.4 using Xalan 2.3.1 into our web > application. My original plan generated 4 xml files. 3 containing > data > from > the database and the 4th containing the path and files names. 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. Does anyone have > any > suggestions / experience on how to handle this. I am gueesing I am > going to > need to do an XML to XSLT conversion first to set the filenames and > then > the XML to FO conversion to create the PDF's. > > Thanks, > Richard Shonk > Flowserve Corp. > Programmer / Analyst > Parts Distribution Center > Moosic, Pa. > (570) 451-2225 Passing a dynamically constructed string argument to the document() function is legal and works without problems. You could try and construct a small example to see this for yourself. ===== Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev. http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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