Subject: Re: [xsl] Joining Multiple XML using XPath API of XALAN From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:19:05 -0400 |
>What should I write in my stylesheet (XSL) so that it >gets the XML DOM reference in an XSL variable???? You can't do this in XSLT alone. You need to write some code. >Is the work in above going to be more than using the >importNode(...) and insertBefore(...) function from >Document and Node classes respectively to merge the >XMLs??? If you can merge them before passing them to XSLT, you can use those approaches. You can't use them within XSLT; there is a basic assumption that each source document is immutable for the duration of the stylesheet's execution. I see two possible approaches here. 1) This one I'm sure would work: Write an extension function (see Xalan's documentation on extension functions), and architect some way in your own code for that function to find the DOM(s) you want to access. Pass the Document nodes to Xalan as the return values of this function, and we'll wrapper it and Do The Right Thing. Possible efficiency issue: If you expect to access the same DOM multiple times, you should probably call your extension only once and assign the returned value to an XSLT variable. For information about writing Xalan extensions, see http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/extensions.html 2) I'm not sure of this one since I haven't tried it in a long time, but... it's possible to pass a DOM node into Xalan as a parameter, via the TrAX APIs, before running the stylesheet. Essentially, this is equivalent to assigning the object to a variable before stylesheet processing starts -- though of course your stylesheet has to be written to expect and use that parameter. The thing I'm not certain of is whether this will recognize the DOM node and automatically give Xalan full access to the DOM tree (convert it to a nodeset), or if Xalan will treat it as a "non-XSLT object" and force you to pass it through an extension before you can see its contents. Can't hurt to try... For information about parameters, see http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/usagepatterns.html#params ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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