Subject: RE: [xsl] XSLT transformation flow based upon data type (access schema from within XSLT?) From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 19:19:37 +0100 |
> It seems somebody would have run across this same problem by > now, but I can't seem to find a solution to it anywhere. > > Essentially: how do I get the XSLT to "see" the data type of a node? I think you have to wait for XSLT 2.0. Making XSLT 2.0 schema-aware is one of the big changes in the new version. > > What I'm doing: given a bunch of nodes from an XML doc I'm > matching on (*), I want to perform a specific action to them > based upon the data type contained within the XML node. > It's pretty ambitious to attempt this with XSLT 1.0, but the way I would suggest is: if you're using Xerces, say, to do the validation, then write a back-end to the parser that extracts the type information from the PSVI produced by Xerces and converts it into an attribute (you could use @xsi:type perhaps), which would then be accessible to the XSLT processor as a standard attribute of each element. Michael Kay Software AG home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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