Re: [xsl] Re: How to handle dynamic XPath

[fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Ken Holman wrote:

> You mentioned you have a parallel document that implies you do, in
> fact, know the structure of the documents.

Not at design time. The structure must be infered by the XSLT script
from the XML Schema of the default and output document. So a key table
also should be constructed from the schema by the script.

> > I am using XSLT to walk through an XML Schema to construct an Xforms
> > (output) instance.
> > In parallel I am scanning an (input) instance (of a document defined
> > by the schema) to
> > include default values in the form.

> Would this not reassure you that the default instance document has
> the same document structure as the instance you are creating?

Yes they both have the same structure, although the Default document
 does not need to contain all elements.

> Nevertheless you can modify my suggested key approach to use any
> lookup value for the default values and then access those default
> values from the loaded key table.

Will look into that. Thanks!

Fred van Blommestein