RE: [xsl] dynamically select an element

[yan bai <bytj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew,
That's a great solution to my problem.
Thank you again.
Yan

--- Andrew Welch <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 
> Yan,
> 
> You need to pass as a parameter the required field
> from the form to the XSL
> stylesheet.
> 
> You can do this using Javascript on the client or
> ASP on the server (in a
> general windows environment...)
> 
> To do this clientside, using msxml4:
> 
> 
> ==html==
> <form name="searchForm" action="searchXML()">
> <input type="text" id="searchVal"/>
> <input type="submit"/>
> </form>
> 
> ==javascript==
>   function searchXML()
>   {
>      xml  = new
> ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0");
>      xml.async=false;
>      xml.load("yourXML.xml");
> 
>      xsl = new
> ActiveXObject("Msxml2.FreeThreadedDOMDocument.4.0");
>      xsl.async=false;
>      xsl.load("yourXSL.xsl");
> 
>      xslTemp = new
> ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XSLTemplate.4.0");
>      xslTemp.stylesheet = xsl;
> 
>      xslProc = xslTemp.createProcessor();
>      xslProc.input = xml;
>     
>
xslProc.addParameter("param1",document.searchForm.searchVal.value);
>      //pull value from form
> 
>      document.write(xslProc.transform);
>   }
> </SCRIPT>
> 
> ===xsl==
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <xsl:stylesheet
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
> version="1.0">
> <xsl:param name="param1"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
>   <xsl:apply-templates
> select="*[local-name()=$param1]"/>
> </xsl:apply-templates>
> 
> ........and so on
> 
> 
> I hope this is a start
> 
> cheers
> 
> 
> andrew
> 
> 
> ===
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of yan bai
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 2:40 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] dynamically select an element
> 
> 
> Hi, Gurus,
> 
> I'd like to have a form in a html page, which allows
> a
> user to select the wanted elements to view data from
> an XML file.  How can I do that?   I know someone
> ask
> the same question in this list or somewhere else. 
> But
> I just can find it.  Hope you can help.
> 
> Thanks so much.
> 
> Yan
> 
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