Re: [xsl] Referencing XML fragments in a XSLT parameter?

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Stephan,

You can declare a variable in your stylesheet and use it, you can set it 
from your Java code to a DOM. If you don't need to do any changes to the 
input, you can use the xsl:copy-of instruction.

<xsl:param name="first-input" required="yes" />
<xsl:param name="second-input" required="yes" />

<xsl:template match="/" >
   <xsl:copy-of select="$first-input/bookselection/book" />
   <xsl:copy-of select="$second-input" />
</xsl:template>

However, if you do want some changes, you can simply use apply-templates:
<xsl:apply-templates select="$first-input/*" />

Be aware of namespaces, though (if your in-memory objects use 
namespaces, make sure to use them in you templates as well).

Cheers,
-- Abel






stephan@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I have an application that produces 2 DOM documents in (Java) memory, that 
> need to be processed in an XSLT transformation. I used the first as input 
> source for the transformation and was wondering how to get the second into 
> the picture. It is rather small with 20-30 nodes only. Since it is 
> generated in code it doesn't have an URL, so document() will not work (?). 
> I could pass the dom into a param, but how to reference it?
>
> The first input looks like:
>
>   <bookselection>
>         <category>Sience Fiction</category>
>         <book>
>             <title>Solaris</title>
>             <author>Lem</author>
>         </book>
>         <book>
>             <title>Sheep look up</title>
>             <author>Brunner</author>
>         </book>
>     </bookselection>
>
> The second one looks like
>
>  <categories>
>         <category>Sience Fiction</category>
>         <category>Cooking</category>
>         <category>Horror</category>
>     </categories>
>
> What I need to achive is:
> <books>
>         <categories>
>             <category selected="true">Sience Fiction</category>
>             <category>Cooking</category>
>             <category>Horror</category>
>         </categories>
>         <book>
>             <title>Solaris</title>
>             <author>Lem</author>
>         </book>
>         <book>
>             <title>Sheep look up</title>
>             <author>Brunner</author>
>         </book>
>     </books>
>
> XSLT 2.0 would be OK. Help is greatly appreciated.
> :-) stw