RE: [xsl] Using document()

["Robert Koberg" <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Sure, you can use a URIResolver.  I posted in a little 'howto' on this a week or
so ago:
http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200210/msg00019.html

It is geared toward a servlet. I also submitted a little example app to Dave
Pawson that should be going up on his FAQ on his next generation. You could use
the resolver to call another process to extract just what you need or setup a
transform that does what you need.

URIResolvers are a Good Thing :)

best,
-Rob



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Adam van den
> Hoven
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 9:45 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [xsl] Using document()
>
>
>
> > > From http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#function-document:
> > > If the URI reference does not contain a fragment identifier,
> > > then a node-set containing just the root node of the document
> > > is returned. If the URI reference does contain a fragment
> > > identifier, the function returns a node-set containing the
> > > nodes in the tree identified by the fragment identifier of
> > > the URI reference.
> > >
> > And it goes on to say:
> >
> > * The semantics of the fragment identifier depend on the
> > media type of the [resource]
> >
> > * The XSLT processor is not required to support any
> > particular media types
> >
> > Which taken together, means that the XSLT processor is not
> > required to support fragment identifiers.
>
> Ok, well that stinks.
>
> I've been nosing around this for a few days and I noticed that the Xalan
> (and others?) packages seem to allow one to create a class that would
> resolve URIs. Presumably this means that one could write resolvers to
> handle arbitrary schemes. Would it be possible to write a URIResolver
> that could handle fragments, or is there something further that I would
> need to do?
>
> Is there another way that I can extend Xalan (or some other Java based
> engine) so that I can reference nodes in this way?
>
> Any help on this would be very much appreciated.
>
> Adam
>
>
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