Subject: [xsl] Re: xsl-list Digest 28 May 2008 05:10:01 -0000 Issue 1511 From: "Ronnie Royston" <rhroyston@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 11:26:22 -0500 |
David Carlisle, thank you for putting me on the right track! Wow, I was way off in the weeds. XSL is overwhelming and although I sometimes feel like it is beyond my reach, I'm not going to give up. All I know is that reading about this stuff is disorienting and humiliating - you gotta get to the keyboard and try. XSL will be learned by doing, not by reading IMHO. I wish someone would publish a series of exercises that I could perform, ones that build on one another. Maybe I will re-visit Jeni Tennison's book again. So, your beautifully crafted instruction: > <xsl:value-of > select="for $s in $skus return key('sku',$s[document('mySkus.xml')/skus/sku[starts-with(.,$s)]],$root)/name" > separator=", "/> leads me to read more on sequence expressions. I've got to go figure out why the <xsl:for-each> was not the correct way, how the locally defined <$s> variable works, and how the brackets <[]> work. Interesting that IE and Firefox fail to transform using the stylesheet where Saxon does it just fine. I guess they don't have built-in version 2 XSLT and/or XPATH features?... I'll have to figure out how to call a Saxon transformation from VBA when the time comes. Anyways, thanks, and boy is the World Wide Web (this mailing list) cool! - Ronnie
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