Re: Follow-up question [Fwd: [xsl] Question about variable-field lookup tables]

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2004-01-20 12:49 -0500, Mir Farooq Ali wrote:
> How do I transmit the value of the id attribute in the XML file down to 
> the newly created elements?

In your <xsl:apply-templates> you can use <xsl:with-param> to pass the id 
attribute value, and then in your <xsl:template> you use <xsl:param> to 
declare the expectation of receiving that value.  You'll have to do this 
for all <xsl:apply-templates> instructions that will be triggered once 
engaged, which means you will have to override the built-in template rule 
for an element if that is one of the ones being used.

> In the fragment below, the id is "something", so the XML that is generated 
> should look something like this
>
>       <p id="something1" c="XXXX">
>          <p id="something11" c="YYYY"/>
>          <p id="something12" c="ZZZZ"/>
>       </p>
>
> for the first case
>
> and
>
>      <p id="something1" c="WWWW"/>
>
> for the second case.

Once you have the id value, you can use numbering techniques for the suffix.

> A broader question that I have is how to relate (or tie) the nodes in the 
> main XML file when the context has switched to the lookup file.

By passing your desired value at *every* change in context, as I've 
described above.

I hope this helps.

........................ Ken

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