Re: [xsl] Find an xml node from a session variable?

["Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Mike" <mikeickes@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 4:49 PM
Subject: [xsl] Find an xml node from a session variable?


> Can anyone point me to a tutorial or sample on how to find a specific
> node in an xml file based on a session variable.
>
> What I want to do is display content to a user based on their user id
> that is set or stored in a session variable.
>
> For instance if a user logs in and a session variable gets set to
> "joeuser" I want to search an xml document for the node that has
> joeuser's data in it and display just the fields under his/her node.
>
> The parser is msxml version 6 I believe but I would like to keep the
> code as os/server agnostic as possible.
>
> Also, can I do this with javascript? I would really like to use one of
> the nice javascript libraries like yui or mootools or prototype etc...
>
> Thanks for your help?
>
> --
> Kind Regards,
> Mike
Mike

You can almost certainly do what you want. If, for example, you have a list 
of user elements within a users element with each user having an id 
attribute then you need the XPath created by:
/users/user[@id = '" + sessionVariable + "']"
to retrieve the relevant element.
If, when you say JavaScript, you mean can you do this client-side then that 
depends whether you have some means of transferring the session variable's 
contents to the client and where the XML with the user data is stored.

Joe

http://joe.fawcett.name