Re: [xsl] loading multiple documents using variables

["Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[Ralph Holz]>
>
> What I'd like to do now is load multiple documents during the
> transformation process, something like:
>
> <xsl:for-each select="doc">
>          <xsl:variable name="name"><xsl:value-of select="@id"
/></xsl:variable>
>          <xsl:apply-templates select="document('C:\{$name}.xml')" />
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> I'd like to use Xalan Java 2 for this.
>
> The error I get now is that document() needs a valid URI as input, and "{"
> is an offending character:

Use

<xsl:apply-templates select="document(concat('C:',\$name,'.xml')" />

Use attribute value templates (the curly brace constructions) for
constructing results, not for specifying selection.

Cheers,

Tom P


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