Re: [xsl] Looking up keys in a separate xml file

[Scott Anguish <sanguish@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Your one XSLT stylesheet can match nodes from different documents just 
> by saying:
>
>   <xsl:template match="descriptions">......
>
> Where elsewhere in your document you do the push:
>
>   <xsl:apply-templates 
> select="document('thedocument.xml')/descriptions"/>
>
> If you have a <descriptions> element in both input files, then you 
> could either use modes or you could qualify an ancestral element that 
> is unique in each file.

I tried that a number of different ways, but still had to fall back to 
the multiple pass methods... So I'm clearly not understanding...

I have a description file

<Descriptions>
<Description name="a"><Para>Description for <subname />With Lookup Name 
A</Para></Description>
<Description name="b"><Para>Description for <subname />With Lookup Name 
B</Para></Description>
<Description name="c"><Para>Description for <subname />With Lookup Name 
C</Para></Description>
</Descriptions>

and I have my file that I need to insert those elements into

<Items>
<Item><Name>Item A</Name><InsertDescription lookup="a" /></Item>
<Item><Name>Item B</Name><InsertDescription lookup="b" /></Item>
<Item><Name>Item C</Name><InsertDescription lookup="a" /></Item>
<Item><Name>Item D</Name><InsertDescription lookup="c" /></Item>
<Item><Name>Item E</Name><InsertDescription lookup="a" /></Item>
</Items>


Each InsertDescription needs to lookup the corresponding 
Description/@name and insert the full contents (so, for a lookup="a", I 
get '<Description name="a"><Para>Description for <subname />With Lookup 
Name A</Para></Description>')

So, it sounds like I'd do this

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?>

<xsl:stylesheet version='1.0' 
xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>
<xsl:output method='xml' version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1' 
omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>

<xsl:key name="descriptionlookup" match="Descriptions/Description" 
use="@name"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:apply-templates 
select="document('descriptions.xml')/descriptions"/>
  <xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="InsertDescription">
   <xsl:value-of select="key('descriptionlookup',@lookup)"/>
    <xsl:value-of select="@lookup" />
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


but I'm not getting any results aside from the Item name's being 
output...


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