RE: [xsl] Using a pre-processor for dynamic inputs

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Firstly, the term "node-set" can be confusing. The parameter value will
generally be a node-set containing a single node; but XSLT 1.0 only has
"node-set" as a data-type, not "node". What you typically want to do is to
iterate through the children of that node, which you can do using path
expressions in the normal way, e.g. xsl:for-each
select="$param/params/param[name="size"]/value".

It's useful when you have multiple trees to have a variable pointing to the
root of each one. Set the global variable <xsl:variable name="root"
select="/"/>, and remember to use $root/xxx where you might otherwise have
used /xxx.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Adams [mailto:dpadams@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 24 September 2004 10:55
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] Using a pre-processor for dynamic inputs
> 
> Once I've properly supplied the XSLT processor with a node-set (by
> passing in a reference or a document that gets parsed, etc.), what is
> the best approach for iterating through the node-set that is a
> parameter. Is this no different than working with the nodes of the
> source XML? I'm really curious how people support dynamically sized
> inputs without pre-processing the stylesheet.
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