Re: [xsl] generating dynamic XSL to apply to a single XML document

[S Woodside <sbwoodside@xxxxxxxxx>]

Instead you can read the form parameters in the xsl if you are using 
(say) libxslt and axkit. You just add an xsl:param with the same name 
as the form parameter and it will get the value filled in if it exists. 
then use xsl:choose or whatever conditional you prefer and do 
everything in one xslt stylesheet.

simon

On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 03:59 AM, Steven Bethard wrote:

> I have a single XML document that contains the data.  There are several
> different views of this data that I need to display, and exactly what
> goes into a view will be determined by some selections in an HTML form.
> So my plan had been to incorporate a CGI script that would take the 
> form
> parameters, generate the appropriate XSL stylesheet, and format the XML
> document using this stylesheet.
>
> The only way I know to apply a different XSL stylesheet to the same XML
> document is something like:
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE page [
> <!ENTITY data SYSTEM "data.xml">
> ]>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="style.xsl"?>
> <page>
> &data;
> </page>
> which (I believe) would mean I would have to save a file called
> "style.xsl", and then have the CGI script return the above as xml data.
>
> I'd rather not create a bunch of temporary files (for the "style.xsl"
> files) if I can avoid it. Is there a better way to do this?
>
> Steve

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