Re: document scope difficulty (Was: decode( source, ... )

I get mon34 as the output using our Oracle XSLT
engine so I'm pretty sure the sum one is just a bug.

You could use a top-level:

 <xsl:stylesheet>
   <xsl:param name="monthlookup">defaultfile.xml</param>


and later use:

    document($monthlookup)//xyz

How you override the default values of top-level "stylesheet"
param's is implementation-specific...

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Clark C. Evans <clark.evans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 10:54 PM
Subject: document scope difficulty (Was: decode( source, ... )


| 
| Is there a way to specify the "primary" document
| in a <xsl:for-each select="" > construct?  
| 
| On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, James Clark wrote:
| > <xsl:value-of
| >   select="document('month.xml')
| >            /months/month[number(substring('19991003',5,2))]"/>
| 
| This was *sweet* ... now I'd like to take it one step further
| and drive report headers/footers using this technique.
| Unfortunately, the document() specifier works too well...
| it seems to be changing the entire scope of the construct.
| 
| Here is an example for illustration:
| 
| ----------------- stylesheet.xsl ------------------
| <xsl:stylesheet
|   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0";
|   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40";
|   result-ns="">
| <xsl:template match="/">
|    <html>
|   <xsl:for-each select="document('two.xml')//day-list" >
|      <xsl:value-of select="day" />
|      <xsl:value-of select="sum(//amount)" />
|    </xsl:for-each>
|   </html>
| </xsl:template>
| </xsl:stylesheet>
| ----------------- one.xml -------------------------
| <entry-list>
|   <entry>
|     <day>mon</day>
|     <amount>34</amount>
|   </entry>
| </entry-list>
| ----------------- two.xml -------------------------
| <root>
|   <day-list>
|     <day>mon</day>
|   </day-list>
|   <amount> 99 </amount>
| </root>
| ----------------- command line --------------------
| xt one.xml stylesheet.xsl
| ----------------- expected output -----------------
| mon 34
| ----------------- actual output -------------------
| mon 99
| ---------------------------------------------------
| 
| The sum(//amount), unfortunately, seems to be
| pointing at document two.xml, not document one.xml.
| 
| Any way to fix this "scope" problem? 
| 
| Of course, I could "sum(document('one.xml')//amount)", however:
| 
| a) I was not expecting document('two.xml') to change
|    the current root node; is this a bug?
| 
| b) You can't hard code the input file name beacuse
|    it will change; perhaps a param could be set automagically?
| 
| c) I found that document('') means the stylesheet...
|    so I was hoping for some other like trick!
| 
| Thank you!
| 
| Clark
| 
| 
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