Re: [xsl] Calling subdocuments with processing directives

[Steven Ericsson-Zenith <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the help David. I can't just use a wild card? I have to  
pick up the file names from somewhere or know them explicitly?

With respect,
Steven


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On Oct 26, 2007, at 9:00 AM, David Carlisle wrote:

> > Thanks Michael, the XPath here is not immediately clear to me where
> > does $docs come from?
>
> Michael's expression was equivalent to the one I suggested, in both
> cases $docs could be a variable of that name or any xpath expression
> that returned a sequence of document nodes, so for exanple
>
> <xsl:variable name="docs" select="doc('a.xml'),doc('b'xml')"/>
>
> or
>
> <xsl:variable name="docs" select="for $d in //link/@href return doc 
> (concat($d,'.xml')"/>
>
>
> or whatever else you need.
>
> > For the sake of my greater understanding - is there some fundamental
> > reason why this is the case?
>
> I'd guess it's really just an efficiency issue, the system only  
> needs to
> index documents on which key() is called. If calling key() could  
> access
> any document known to the system, then the system would have to index
> all documents if the stylesheet used key at all.
>
>
> david
>
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