Re: [xsl] Saxon command-line: How to assign a sequence of multiple strings to a global param

["Mukul Gandhi gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:07 PM Jorge . chocolate.camera@xxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Running Saxon from the command line (testing with Saxon-HE 9.2.1.2Jbyes,
> old as heckbon Bash 3.2.57(1)), is there a way to set the value of a
global
> parameter of an XSLT2 stylesheet to a sequence of strings?
>
>   <xsl:param name="MY_ARRAY" as="xs:string*"/>
>
> When attempting to do it like this:
>
>   java  -jar saxon9he.jar [options] 'MY_ARRAY="one" "two" "three"'
>   java  -jar saxon9he.jar [options] MY_ARRAY='"one" "two" "three"'
>
> Saxon seemingly interprets spaces as literal, and the value of the
> parameter becomes one single string
>
>   <xsl:message select="count($MY_ARRAY)"/>
> b 1
>
> instead of interpreting them as separators so that the value of the
> parameter contains those three.
>

 This could be done as follows, I think.

Pass a parameter to stylesheet as follows,
MY_ARRAY="one;two;three"

(there's only one string parameter. but we use a delimiter between words.
in this example ; is a delimiter)

In the stylesheet, we declare as follows
<xsl:param name="MY_ARRAY" as="xs:string"/>

Then we need to use fn:tokenize on MY_ARRAY.

You may choose a convenient delimiter for your environment.


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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi