RE: [xsl] Passing a variable number of parameters?

["Andrew Welch" <ajwelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> This leads me to the second part of my question, because
> somebody could say "Why don't you try it out?".  I need to
> implement this in Javascript, and so far I haven't found a
> way to create a NodeList that would be accepted by the XSL
> processor (be it Gecko or MSIE) as valid parameter; I receive
> "incompatibe type" errors.

If you are struggling to create a node list to pass in as a parameter,
two other solutions are:

1.  Create an xml file out of your node-list and then reference that
using the document() function.  For example:

params.xml

<params>
  <param name="bar" value="baz"/>
  <param name="hello" value="world"/>
</params/>

Then use:

<xsl:variable name="params" select="document('params.xml')"/>

2.  Create your params as a well-formed string and then combine with the
xml document (in also in string form) and then transform that.  For
example:

var params = "<params> ..blah </params>";
var xmlDoc =  "<root>" + params + original_xml_doc + "</root>";

(note the containing root element to keep everything well-formed)

You can then access your parameters using:

<xsl:variable name="params" select="/root/params"/>


cheers
andrew