Re: [xsl] WITH-PARAM with node as argument?

[Andreas Schlegel <schlegelaw@xxxxxx>]

It's running now :-) Indeed I was close to find it out.

Thanks for help,
Andreas


Passin, Tom wrote:
> [Andreas Schlegel]
>
>
> > I would like to write a with-param statement with a node as 
> > argument and 
> > handle this node in a template. But I don't know if it is possible or 
> > even what is the syntax. 
>
>
> Yes it is possible and you were almost there - all you had to do was to
> try it out.  You can also simplify the "textfield" template by using
> attribute value templates.  Assuming that comp/attribute are the
> elements you are interested in (as it seems from your example),  it
> would look like this (modifying your templates a little) -
>
> <xsl:call-template name="textfield">
>    <xsl:with-param 
>          name='comp' select='comp'/>
> </xsl:call-template>
> ....
>
> <xsl:template name='textfield'>
>    <xsl:param name='comp'/>
>  <tr>
>    <th align="left"><xsl:value-of
> select="{$comp/attribute[@name='country']/@label}"/></th>
>      <td align="left" colspan="1">
>        <input type='text'
> name="{$comp/attribute[@name='country']/@name}"/>
>
> ... and so on
> </xsl:template>
>
> Now, in this particular case it would not give you any advantage if you
> could arrange things so that "comp" is the context node when you call
> the template - since call-template keeps the same context in effect and
> so you would not need a parameter at all - but there are plenty of other
> cases where it is extremely useful to be able to pass a node-set
> (possibly containing just one node) as a parameter.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom P
>
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