Re: [xsl] Processing xsl within an included document

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brooks,

It appears you may be confusing two different features offered by XSLT:

* when you need access to another document besides your primary source, you 
can access it by using the document() function

* if you want to modularize your stylesheet, you have two top-level 
instructions, xsl:import and xsl:include, that can be used

If header.xsl provides code (a set of templates) that you want your 
stylesheet to use, you should be using xsl:import or xsl:include. You'd use 
document() only if you wanted to query into it or process some or all of it 
as *input* to your process. Assuming your case falls into the former 
category, you could adjust your code as follows:

--- main.xsl ---
<xsl:include href="include/header.xsl"/>

...

[in your template]
<xsl:variable name="testvar" select="'hello'" />
<xsl:call-template name="make-header">
  <xsl:with-param name="value" select="$testvar"/>
</xsl:call-template>
Boring main stuff

--- include/header.xsl ---
<xsl:template name="make-header">
  <xsl:param name="value"/>
  <page>
    <header>
      <h1><xsl:value-of select="$value" /></h1>
    </header>
  </page>
</xsl:template>

I hope that helps,
Wendell

 At 01:33 PM 10/13/2004, you wrote:
> I know that this is something of a FAQ, and I apologize.  But I've
> searched the list archives and googled until the "g" key on my keyboard
> begged for mercy, and I'm still stuck.
>
> I just can't get my head around processing XSL elements inside an
> included document.
>
> Here's what I've got now:
>
> --- main.xsl ---
> <xsl:variable name="testvar" select="'hello'" />
> <xsl:copy-of select="document('include/header.xsl')//page/header" />
> Boring main stuff
>
> --- include/header.xsl ---
> <page>
> <header>
> <h1><xsl:value-of select="$testvar" /></h1>
> </header>
> </page>
>
> ...clearly, that's not going to work because the copy-of deep copy
> thing.  The <xsl:value-of...> element is just being included verbatim in
> the output.
>
> So here's where I'm stuck.  It seems like it should be a very
> straightforward operation, and I've done gymnastics with <xsl:copy> and
> <xsl:apply-templates/>, but I just can't seem to make it make sense.


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