Re: [xsl] accessing elements created on the fly

[Dean Missikowski <dean_missikowski@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Dimitre,

Your node-set() suggestion helped.  Much appreciated.


--- Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Being quite new to XSLT, I'm currently thinking
> I'll
> > have to perform the following two steps
> separately:
> > 
> > 1. transform the original xml containing
> > <months></months> into xml using <month></month>
> > elements
> > 2. transform the xml from step 2 into html using
> the
> > XSLT designed to work with <month></month>
> elements
> > 
> > Is there any way to do both in one XSLT?  That is,
> can
> > the XSLT reference the elements created on the
> fly?
> 
> One way to do this is the following:
> 
> <xsl:variable name="neatXML">
>   <xsl:apply-templates
> select="/root/client/months"/>
> </xsl:variable>
> 
> Then in your code use this RTF in the following way:
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates
> select="xxx:node-set($neatXML)/root/client/month"/>
> 
> where xxx is the preffix associated with a
> particular vendor-specific extension
> namespace (e.g. msxsl, or saxon, or xt)
> 
> Hope this helped.
> 
> Dimitre Novatchev.

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