generalizing an XSL solution

["Judi Thomson" <thomson at cs dot ualberta dot ca>]

I know that my question is likely answered in the archives..
but the server won't give me the archives right now.  So I
apologize in advance to those who may have already answered
my question.

I want to create an XSL sheet that selects specific
information from an HTML table and writes it to an XML file.
For example I might have an HTML document with 4 tables on
it, and I want the information from  rows 3,4, and 5 of
table 2.    (assume that the HTML is well formed)

I can figure out how to do this for specific instances
(using siblings/children and XPath).  What I want to do is
create a sheet that has the parameters (3,4,5 and 2 in this
example) specified separately (ideally at the top of the
file where its easy to modify them) so that my solution can
be applied to other documents with a minimum of fuss by
people who know little about XSL.

I don't care how the parameters are specified (numerically,
using XPath expressions, or some other simpler way).

Does anyone see an elegant solution to this?

Thanks!

Judi Thomson







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