Re: [xsl] passing username

[g p <g@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Jeni I am using cocoon your answer is perfect.
I am glad it made sense to you.

here is what "Goetz" said:

BTW: the information you provided is about as helpfull as: "My car stopped, what can i do?"

Thanks,
Gloria

--- Jeni Tennison <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>Hi Gloria,
>
>> I am using (test.xsl + test.xml) to produce another form on the
>> browser. Is there any way of getting value of the username passed to
>> the second form (i.e. form that generated from (test.xml + test.xsl)
>
>You need to pass the username in as a parameter to test.xsl.  Set up
>test.xsl so that it can accept the parameter, using an xsl:param
>element at the top level of the stylesheet (i.e. as a child of
>xsl:stylesheet):
>
><xsl:param name="username" />
>
>Then use this $username when you create the form with test.xsl.  For
>example, to get its value you can use:
>
>  <xsl:value-of select="$username" />
>
>How you pass in the parameter to the stylesheet depends on what XSLT
>processor you're using.  If you're using MSXML (i.e. doing the
>transformation client-side with IE) then you need to script the
>transformation and use the addParameter() method:
>
>  addParameter('username', form.username)
>
>That entails adding some Javascript to the login.html page. See the
>MSXML SDK documentation for more details.
>
>If you're using Cocoon then you can use the URL to pass the parameter,
>so for example:
>
>  test.xml?username=Fred
>
>will set the username parameter to the string 'Fred'.
>
>I hope that helps,
>
>Jeni
>
>---
>Jeni Tennison
>http://www.jenitennison.com/

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