Re: [xsl] Retrieving Parameters Values from an XSLT Transform

[Emmanouil Batsis <Emmanouil.Batsis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Varley, Roger [mailto:Roger.Varley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
>
> What I had in mind was to
> use the javax.xml.transform.Transformer object in my calling program and
> pass it an empty string using setParameter(), assign the parameter a value
> during the XSLT transform and then call getParameter() after the transform
> has finished?
>  

You cannot change the value of a parameter/variable in standard XSLT, so 
there should be no reason for an XSLT proccessor to return parameters 
back to you.

> The reason I'm asking is that I have an application that receives an XML
> datastream through a servlet. The servlet formats the XML into a
> "user-friendly" text file via the Transformer class and attaches the result
> to an e-mail. I've now been asked to include data from the XML document into
> the title of the e-mail.
>  

Just retreive the information you need from the source or result 
document using the XML API of your choice.

Manos