[xsl] Accessing Global Parameters from an included Stylesheet

["Todd Baker" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I am getting some weird behaviour in the parsing of my XSLT stylesheets in
the MSXML 4(SP2) parser and would like to ask the list if its me or the
parser at fault.


I have one main .xsl that is loaded into the MSXML parser and from there I
load an "included" stylesheet with some named templates as shown below.


<< MAIN TEMPLATE >>
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<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
				xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"

	
xmlns:user="http://www.lateralsystems.com/user"; 
	
xmlns:vbuser="http://www.lateralsystems.com/vbuser"; 
				version="1.0"
				exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl user vbuser">

<xsl:include href="nswTemplates.xsl"/>
	
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes" />
				
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

<xsl:template match="html">
	<xsl:copy-of select="*|text()"/>
</xsl:template>


<xsl:param name="id"></xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="query_news"></xsl:param> <xsl:param
name="stateFolder">new_south_wales</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="statePagesFolder">nsw_pages</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="stateLibraryFolder">nsw_library</xsl:param>

<xsl:template match="/">
	<!-- Lots of stuff in here deleted -->

	<xsl:call-template name="LatestNews" />

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>



<< nswTemplates.xsl >>
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<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
				xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"

	
xmlns:user="http://www.lateralsystems.com/user"; 
	
xmlns:vbuser="http://www.lateralsystems.com/vbuser"; 
				version="1.0"
				exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl user vbuser">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes" />
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>


<xsl:template name="LatestNews">

<h1>Latest News</h1>
<xsl:for-each
select="/content/assets/group[@name='states']/group[@name=$stateFolder]/grou
p[@name=$stateLibraryFolder]//asset[@assetdefname='state news']/version">
	<xsl:sort select="element_priority_news" order="descending"/>
	<xsl:sort select="element_date/@datesort" order="descending" />

	<xsl:sort select="element_time/@timesort" order="descending" />

	<!--  BLAH BLAH BLAH, Do this and that, maybee some more... -->

</xsl:for-each>		
</xsl:template>		
	
</xsl:stylesheet>		

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As you can see I am using the $stateFolder and $stateLibraryFolder
parameters from the main stylesheet to evaluate my XPATH, the problem is,
whilst I CAN ACCESS $stateFolder I CANNOT access $stateLibraryFolder. I get
an error:

"A reference to variable or parameter 'stateLibraryFolder' cannot be
resolved. The variable or parameter may not be defined, or it may not be in
scope. "

If I then define this parameter in nswTemplates.xsl I get this error:

"Global variable or parameter 'stateLibraryFolder' cannot be defined more
than once with the same import precedence."

Which is what I was expecting...


The "LatestNews" template runs fine if I move the code into the main
template.

My question is, should I be able to access these parameters or should I be
parsing these into each template using with-param OR is this a MSXML bug?

Thanks in advance.


Todd




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