Re: [xsl] Reading external XML file XSLT2.0

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/05/2013 12:03, Pankaj Chaturvedi wrote:
> > I know that
> >      <xsl:variable name="extNode"
> > select="document('file:/c:/book-type/book_meta.xml')"/>
> > Will not work in Windows so decided to use document-uri(). Can
> > somebody share their views  how this can be done.
>
> > try file:///   (3 slashes)
>
>
> No success Andrew. I am writing below codes just for review
>
>     <xsl:variable name="extNode"
> select="document('file:///C:/book-type/book_meta.xml')"/>

after that $extNode is the document node.
so this:
> Trying to print somewhere
>
> <xsl:value-of select="doc($extNode)/book-meta/book/@author"/>

is wrong you want

 <xsl:value-of select="$extNode/book-meta/book/@author"/>


David


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