Re: [xsl] passing arguments in the xml-stylesheet line

["Garrick Besterwitch" <garrickb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi ,

  I have a globle variable defined at the top of my xsl file....
How do I change the value of this variable  based on some condition inside a
template????.

Thanks
Garrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Brown" <mike@xxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 6:22 AM
Subject: Re: [xsl] passing arguments in the xml-stylesheet line


> Todd Binder wrote:
> > <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="training_city.xsl"?>
> >
> > is it possible to pass an argument to the given XSL file that would be
> > interpreted within the XSL file with the <xsl:para name="city"/>
>
> That's a processing instruction, and it technically has only 2 parts:
> the target ("xml-stylesheet") and the instruction (the string that comes
> after the target, starting with "type=...")
>
> There is a W3C Recommendation that dictates the semantics of the
> xml-stylesheet processing instruction. It says that this p.i. is used
> to associate an XML document with a stylesheet, and that the instruction
> is formatted to look like attributes (pseudo-attributes, they call 'em),
> which can be used by the application receiving the instruction string
> from the XML parser. One of the attributes is the "type" which should
> be an IANA-registered Internet media type (which excludes text/xsl,
> despite Microsoft's insistence on using it here) for the stylesheet,
> and another attribute is the "href" pointing to the stylesheet.
>
> No other pseudo-attributes or semantics are mandated by the W3C for
> the xml-stylesheet p.i., so it falls on the application (Internet
> Explorer w/MSXML, in your case), to provide its own mechanisms for
> additional functionality.
>
> > so the line in my XML file would look like the following...
> > <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="training_city.xsl?city=5921"?>
>
> There is nothing stopping IE from recognizing such a thing, or using
> some other pseudo-attribute or another processing instruction to
> pass the parameter, but to my knowledge, it does not do so.
>
> > i am aware that i could use ASP along with the Msxml2.DOMDocument to
> > addParameters to an XSL file, but i wanted to see if i could do it from
> > command-like syntax, and avoid having to use ASP.
>
> I think you're out of luck. The xml-stylesheet p.i. is for a simple
> association of an XML document with a stylesheet.
>
>    - Mike
>
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