Re: [xsl] passing a sequence as a parameter

[Geert Bormans <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

why don't you pass a string instead of a sequence?
"true,false,true"
use tokenise() to make it a sequence in the XSLT
and index-of to help you with selecting the <name> you want to output


At 12:19 26/02/2008, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a way of working with a sequence passed to a stylesheet
> as a parameter. For example, I have an xml file as follows...
>
> <root>
>     <user>
>         <name>Robert</name>
>         <name>Adam</name>
>         <name>Graham</name>
>     </user>
> </root>
>
> ...which I want to pass to my XSLT along with a parameter containing a
> sequence of values, lets say ('true', 'false', 'true'). I then want to
> iterate through the name elements, only outputing something when the
> corresponding value in the sequence is 'true'. In this case I would want
> to return
>
> <root>
>     <user>
>         <name>Robert</name>
>         <name>Graham</name>
>     </user>
> </root>
>
>
> What I have so far is this...
>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
> version="2.0">
>     <xsl:param name="my_params"/>
>     <xsl:template match="/root">
>         <root>
>             <xsl:apply-templates/>
>         </root>
>     </xsl:template>
>     <xsl:template match="user">
>         <user>
>            <xsl:for-each select="name">
>                <xsl:if test="$my_params[...] = 'true'">
>                    <name>
>                        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>                    </name>
>                </xsl:if>
>            </xsl:for-each>
>        </user>
>     </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> ...which needless to say doesn't work, but hopefully will make clearer
> what I am trying to do.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Rob Walpole
> Devon Portal Developer
> Email robert.walpole@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Web http://www.devonline.gov.uk
>
>
>
> Rob Walpole
> Devon Portal Developer
> Tel. 01392 382768
> E-mail robert.walpole@xxxxxxxxxxxx