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

["kent" <kent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good answer, very definitive, thanks.

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From: JBryant@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:JBryant@xxxxxxxxx] 
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Subject: RE: [xsl] Passing a variable number of parameters or rather an
array

Because tokenize is an XSLT 2.0 function and Xalan is an XSLT 1.0 
processor.

You need to use a recursive template to get strings from a larger string 
in XSLT 1.0.

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)




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Thanks everyone for the help.

Argh, so I tried this approach and I even found another example of it at:
http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2003/05/07/tr.html

And yet it doesn't work in xalan, which is frustrating:

<xsl:variable 
name="sampleString">XML,XSLT,XPath,SVG,XPointer</xsl:variable>

<xsl:variable name="tokenizedSample" 
select="tokenize($sampleString,',')"/>

    <xsl:for-each select="$tokenizedSample">
      <xsl:value-of select="."/>
      <xsl:text>! </xsl:text>
    </xsl:for-each>

does anyone know why this gives me the error: 

ERROR:  'Error checking type of the expression 'funcall(tokenize,
[variable-ref(sampleString/result-tree), literal-expr(,)])'.'
FATAL ERROR:  'Could not compile stylesheet'


-----Original Message-----
From: Ramkumar Menon [mailto:ramkumar.menon@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 3:49 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] Passing a variable number of parameters or rather an
array

Just give this a try..... I havent tried it out myself.... 

Step1 :  Store it into a variable..
Step 2:  Iterate through using <for-each>

<for-each select="tokenize($category,'\s+')">
  <individualFruit>
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </individualFruit>
</xsl:for-each>


On 4/20/05, kent <kent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 


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