create an xslt nodeset to pass to template

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Janusz Stabik 37 posts 59 karma points

Mar 30, 2011 @ 13:02

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Create an XSLT nodeset to pass to template

XSLT

I have a template for a given doc type that i use all over the place and include into a number of xslt macros. Now I want to reuse the same template with some content xml that has a different schema but has nodes (properties) that I can "map" to similar fields in the given template. Is it possible to create a node set in my xslt file, assign it to a variable and pass that to the tempate as a param?

Hope that all makes sense.

I could do it in an extension but it seems a bit overkill to me.

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Jan Skovgaard 11280 posts 23678 karma points MVP 10x admin c-trib

Mar 30, 2011 @ 14:42

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Hi Janusz

This sound like something that should be possible.

Could you perhaps provide some snippets of the code you already have and the stuff that needs to be transformed?

/Jan

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Chriztian Steinmeier 2798 posts 8788 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib

Mar 30, 2011 @ 21:18

Hi Janusz,

You can build a variable containing XML and use the node-set() function to be able to perform XPath querying or applying templates etc.:

<xsl:variable name="node-mapper">
    <nodes>
        <node id="1">
            <someValue>text</someValue>
            <someOtherValue attr="possible" />
        </node>
        <node id="2">
            <someValue>text</someValue>
            <someOtherValue attr="possible" />
        </node>
    </nodes>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="nodes" select="msxml:node-set($node-mapper)/nodes" />

<xsl:call-template name="handler">
    <xsl:with-param name="nodes" select="$nodes" />
</xsl:call-template>

<xsl:template name="handler">
    <xsl:param name="nodes" />

    <xsl:value-of select="$nodes/node[@id = 1]/someValue" />
    <!-- etc -->

</xsl:template>

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