RE: [xsl] Passing a variable number of parameters or rather an array

["kent" <kent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Also a good idea, but do I have to go and save the xml as a file, is there
no way of passing in the it in also as a parameter, performance is not a
huge issue, but I wouldn't mind saving a bit of disk latency.

More importantly how do I do array/string[1] in some sort of loop, sorry I
am very new to xslt.

thanks


-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Paul Adams [mailto:colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 3:12 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] Passing a variable number of parameters or rather an
array

>>>>> "kent" == kent  <kent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    kent> I have had a trawl on this subject, but I the best answer I
    kent> can get is 'You can pass a nodeset, which can be treated as
    kent> the XML equivalent of an Array'.  However I am not sure how
    kent> to create the nodeset, pass it, and then deal with it in the
    kent> stylesheet.

    kent> I would like to pass an array of strings to the
    kent> stylesheet. Does anyone have an example of doing this, or
    kent> know where one is. I looked at xalan examples and none of
    kent> the examples seem to fit, plus I can't find one anywhere
    kent> else.

The details of how to pass stylesheet parameters to a transformer is
specific to the particular XSLT processor.

But there is a portable (*) way of doing what you want to do:

Create your array as an xml document: e,g.:

<array>
 <string>string one</string>
 <string>string two</string>
</array>

Then pass the URI of this document as a string-valued parameter, and
use the document() function to access the array.

Now you can use XPath expressions such as array/string[1] to get the
first string-value from this document.

(*) assuming that all XSLT processors allow you to pass a
string-constant as a parameter.
-- 
Colin Paul Adams
Preston Lancashire