Re: [xsl] Client-side XSLT

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

Mark wrote:

> My question: is it possible to open that target XML file with a
> parameter (such as the number "635") and then pass that parameter on to
> the XSL processing instruction in some manner that makes it available to
> "render.xsl"? If I can pass this single parameter through to the XSLT
> stylesheet, my problem is completely solved. (Since my website is
> non-commercial, I can insist that it is only available to browsers that
> can automatically process XSLT).
>
> Or, as both you and Martin seem to imply, must I use a scripting
> language to achieve my goal of passing a parameter to the XSLT stylesheet?

If you want to process query parameters in a URL you need more than XSLT 
I think, you can do that stuff with any server-side language (like PHP) 
or framework (like ASP.NET or JSP) so you would load e.g.
  http://example.com/applyxslt.php?sheet=sheet1.xsl&number=635
and your PHP script applyxslt.php would then read out those parameters 
and run the transformation on the server, setting stylesheet parameters 
as needed.



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