Subject: RE: [xsl] Tramsform XML through mapping schemas using XSL From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:00:08 -0000 |
> > Many thanks for the replies so far. I'm now progressing to > look at the mapping file or "high-level description of a > stereotyped transformation", and was wondering whether I > could use xpath statements in this file to identify data I > want to extract from particular elements/attributes, or > identify even the elements themselves. > > The question that subsequently arises when creating a mapping > file as such > is: Can one pass xpath statements as variables into > templates, and then act on them (against the source document)? No you can't (except with extensions such as xx:evaluate()); but if you are generating a stylesheet from your configuratoin file, rather than interpreting it, this isn't a problem. Michael Kay > > Thanks, > Alistair - alistair.power@xxxxxxxxx > -----Original Message----- > It sounds to me as if you should treat your "configuration > file" as a high-level description of a stereotyped > transformation, and use it to generate a specific XSLT > stylesheet for a particular transformation. You can do this > stylesheet generation in XSLT, of course. > > Michael Kay > Software AG > home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx > work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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