RE: [xsl] Pass a variable value from javascript to xsl

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I am trying to pass a variable value from javascript to xsl. For
> example, I have a xsl:variable called instance:
>  
>  
>  <xsl:variable name="instance"/>
>  
>  
>   And I want to assign a javascript variable value to 'instance'
>  The javascript code is:
>   
>  
>  <script language="JavaScript">
>  function example(){
>  		var art
>  		art = 
> document.exampleForm.artistOnChange[document.noadsterForm.arti
> stOnChange.selectedIndex].text
>  }
>  </script>

If it appears like that in your stylesheet, then it's not javascript code as
far as the XSLT processor is concerned, it's just a chunk of text to be
copied into the generated HTML document. 
>  
> I call the javascript function in my xsl code when someone select
> something in a form:
>   
>   
>  <select name="artistOnChange" onchange="example">
>  
>  
>   I want to save the value of the javascript variable 'art' into the
> xsl:variable 'instance'. How can I do that?

You haven't understood the processing model. The XSLT processor takes an XML
document and a stylesheet as input and runs a transformation whose output is
an HTML page. When the user selects something on a form, they are
interacting with the HTML page. The transformation by then has long ago
finished.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/