Re: [xsl] A node-set from concat()

[S Woodside <sbwoodside@xxxxxxxxx>]

Make a template for it and apply-templates

e.g.

<apply-templates select="$journal/external[@name='journal']/@href"  
mode="foo"/>

<template match="@href" mode="foo">
...document(concat(@href, '.xjour')/entries/entry
...

simon

On Sunday, April 20, 2003, at 10:58  PM, Foxy Shadis wrote:

> I'm trying to open up multiple documents with an interface like:
>
> document(concat($journal/external[@name='journal']/@href,'.xjour'))/ 
> entries/entry
>
> Obviously this won't work, since concat uses only the string value of  
> the first node in any node-sets passed to it, returning a single  
> string. I'd just like a similar function that concatenates each item  
> in the node-set to other items in node-sets and strings. (Whether it  
> would go over multiple node-sets in a multi-dimensional matrix or only  
> the first node-set, I don't care at this point.) At the moment the  
> only solution seems to be using yet another hack with a node-set  
> extension.
>
> I could put the extension back in the main file, but it would be  
> difficult to use if I changed the extension (also, if I later change  
> the folders the files are stored in, one for each user perhaps), and  
> this acts as a security mechanism. Perhaps I should simply use an  
> EXSLT function, since I wish to strip any dot and slash characters  
> anyway. Would still need node-set(), however, at least until XPath 2.0  
> support is in Xalan.
>
> I'm not sure whether keys could be turned to work, but I am sure they  
> would be far too much trouble; all data comes from document()  
> functions, the "input" being a null xml file, and "match" keys are  
> difficult to use with multiple sources.
>
> Swiftpaw Foxyshadis, wildlife artist
> foxyshadis@xxxxxxxxxxx | http://foxyshadis.dyndns.org/
> http://foxyshadis.dyndns.org/journal/foxyshadis

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