Re: Loading an external file of index

[Pierre Attar <patt at tireme dot fr>]

Jeni,

I've tried your sample using xalan and it complains.

The code is :

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
         <xsl:variable 
name="sharedDoc">document('../shared/shared.xml')</xsl:variable>
         <xsl:key name="mysetofkeys" match="KEYBASE/KEY" use="@NAME"/>

         ....

     <xsl:template match="KEYREF">
         <xsl:variable name="keyrefname" select="@LINKEND" />
         <xsl:for-each select="$sharedDoc">
                 <b><xsl:value-of select="key('mysetofkeys', 
$keyrefname)/ACRONYM" /></b>
         </xsl:for-each>
     </xsl:template>

         ...

</xsl:stylesheet>


And the error is, at runtime transformation :

=============================
Transforming...
XPATH: Can not convert #UNKNOWN to a NodeList!
Xalan: was not successful.
XSLProcessor: done

Any idea ?

Regards,

Pierre

At 12:29 22/06/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>Unfortunately, I know from struggling with some fairly recent questions
>that this doesn't work.  You can't use the document() function within the
>'match' attribute of xsl:key.  Instead, define the key as if the input
>document was the one with the keys in, at the top level of the stylesheet:
>
>   <xsl:key name="mysetofkeys" match="/keybase/key" use="@name" />
>
>Then, when you want to use it, put the key() function within an
>xsl:for-each that has the document that holds the keys as its 'select'
>attribute:
>
>   <xsl:template match="keyref">
>     <xsl:variable name="keyrefname" select="@name" />
>     <xsl:for-each select="document('../shared/shared.xml')">
>       <b><xsl:value-of select="key('mysetofkeys', $keyrefname)/ACRONYM" 
> /></b>
>     </xsl:for-each>
>   </xsl:template>
>
>This is kind of explained in the XSLT Recommendation at
>http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#function-key, right at the end of that section.


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