Re: Loading an external file of index

[Claudio Sacerdoti Coen <sacerdot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:48:33 -0700, Paul Tchistopolskii wrote:
> > >  I would prefer this requirement to be got rid of in the XSLT spec.
> > >  Instead, I would put a special PI (or something similar) telling the
> > >  XSLT processor that the document retrieved is ever the same.
> 
> Ah - I forgot to write...  Of course there is no need in any PI's - just 
> 
> <xsl:variable name="loaded-doc"  select="document( 'some-uri-here')"/>
> 
> And then re-use $loaded-doc when you need it. 

 This is not possible in XSLT because $loaded-doc is not a document
 fragment, but only a node set. So I can't, for example, write
 
  <xsl:value-of select="$loaded-doc/*[1]"/>

 For this reason I suggested the PI.

 						Regards,
						 C.S.C.

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