Including files into a stylesheet

[Joe Plant <Joe dot Plant at razorfish dot co dot uk>]

Hi all,

This is my first post to the list.

I have an application build around MSXML3 (july edition) where I need to
convert an xml input file into an xml output file.  

Input.xml
<Input>
	<DIV ID="Firstname">Joe</DIV>
	<DIV ID="Surname">Bloggs</DIV>
	<DIV ID="Phone">123456789</DIV>
	<DIV ID="Fax">987654321</DIV>
	<DIV ID="Salary" CURRENCY="GBP">100,000</DIV>
</Input>

Output.xml
<Output>
	<Field name="Name" Type="Text">
		<Value>Joe Bloggs</Value>
	</Field>
	<Field name="Phone" Type="Text">
		<Value>123456789</Value>
	</Field>
	<Field name="Fax" Type="Text">
		<Value>987654321</Value>
	</Field>
	<Field name="Salary" Type="Numeric">
		<Value>100000</Value>
	</Field>
	<Field name="SalaryCurrency" Type="Text">
		<Value>GBP</Value>
	</Field>
</Output>

The xsl stylesheet that I use to translate the input to the output is as
follows

Translate.xsl
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
	<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8"/>
	<xsl:template match="/">
		<!-- 
The following variables are defined :
	varName
	varTelephone
	varFax
	varSalary
	varSalaryCurrency
-->
		<xsl:variable name="varName">
			<xsl:if test="Input/DIV[(@ID='Firstname') or
(@ID='Surname')]">
				<xsl:variable name="_varFirstname">
					<xsl:if
test="not(Input/DIV[@ID='Firstname']='NA')">
						<xsl:value-of
select="Input/DIV[@ID='Firstname']"/>
					</xsl:if>
				</xsl:variable>
				<xsl:variable name="_varSurname">
					<xsl:if
test="not(Input/DIV[@ID='Surname']='NA')">
						<xsl:value-of
select="Input/DIV[@ID='Surname']"/>
					</xsl:if>
				</xsl:variable>
				<xsl:value-of select="$_varFirstname"/>
				<xsl:if test="not(($_varFirstname='') or
($_varSurname=''))">
				<!-- insert a space (0x20) between the
firstname and surname -->
					<xsl:text>&#x20;</xsl:text>
				</xsl:if>
				<xsl:value-of select="$_varSurname"/>
			</xsl:if>
		</xsl:variable>
		<xsl:variable name="varTelephone"
select="Input/DIV[@ID='Phone']"/>
		<xsl:variable name="varFax" select="Input/DIV[@ID='Fax']"/>
		<xsl:variable name="varSalary">
			<xsl:apply-templates
select="Input/DIV[@ID='Salary']" mode="Value"/>
		</xsl:variable>
		<xsl:variable name="varSalaryCurrency">
			<xsl:apply-templates
select="Input/DIV[@ID='Salary']" mode="Currency"/>
		</xsl:variable>
		<Output>
			<Field Name="Name" Type="Text">
				<Value>
					<xsl:value-of select="$varName"/>
				</Value>
			</Field>
			<Field Name="Phone" Type="Text">
				<Value>
					<xsl:value-of
select="$varTelephone"/>
				</Value>
			</Field>
			<Field Name="Fax" Type="Text">
				<Value>
					<xsl:value-of select="$varFax"/>
				</Value>
			</Field>
			<Field Name="Salary" Type="Numeric">
				<Value>
					<xsl:value-of select="$varSalary"/>
				</Value>
			</Field>
			<Field Name="SalaryCurrency" Type="Text">
				<Value>
					<xsl:value-of
select="$varSalaryCurrency"/>
				</Value>
			</Field>
		</Output>
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:template match="*" mode="Value">
		<xsl:variable name="_varValue"
select="translate(.,'-01234567890(),NA','-01234567890-')"/>
		<xsl:value-of select="$_varValue"/>
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:template match="*" mode="Currency">
		<xsl:value-of select="@CURRENCY"/>
	</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

This works fine....althought I have another stylesheet that also uses the
same variables.

Rather than copying the variable evaluation into the new stylesheet, is it
possible to define the variables in a file and then include them into the
stylesheet.

I have tried using <xsl:import href=varDeclaration.xsl/> and <xsl:include
href=varDeclaration.xsl/> but with no success.  It seems that I need to
define the namespace in any files that I wish to include (and they are not
valid at the positions that I have specified).

Also I seem to have problems using variables defined in one template in
another.  ie. i have to define and use the variables in one template only.  

Thanks in advance,

Joseph Plant
Joe.Plant@razorfish.co.uk


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