RE: variable and match

One way I've done this is to use a two-step process; first, create your
"dynamic" stylesheet by transforming your original XML into XSLT; then,
apply the newly-created stylesheet to the original XML to produce your
output. For your example, if you take the following "meta" stylesheet:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
  <xsl:template match="/ROWSET">
    <xsl:element name="xsl:stylesheet">
      <xsl:attribute name="version">1.0</xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:element name="xsl:template">
        <xsl:attribute name="match">/ROWSET/<xsl:value-of
select="REPLACE/@EL"/>
        </xsl:attribute>
        <xsl:element name="xsl:element">
          <xsl:attribute name="name">ROWSET</xsl:attribute>
          <xsl:element name="xsl:element">
            <xsl:attribute name="name">NEWELEMENT</xsl:attribute>
            <xsl:element name="xsl:copy-of">
              <xsl:attribute name="select">*</xsl:attribute>
            </xsl:element>
          </xsl:element>
        </xsl:element>
      </xsl:element>
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>  

And use it to transform

<ROWSET>
  <REPLACE EL="FOO"/>
   <FOO>
      <DATA1>data1</DATA1>
      <DATA1>data1</DATA1>
   </FOO>
</ROWSET>

The output is:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:template match="/ROWSET/FOO">
    <xsl:element name="ROWSET">
      <xsl:element name="NEWELEMENT">
        <xsl:copy-of select="*"/>
      </xsl:element>
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet> 

Using this output to style the original XML yields:

<ROWSET>
  <NEWELEMENT>
    <DATA1>data1</DATA1>
    <DATA1>data1</DATA1>
  </NEWELEMENT>
</ROWSET>

A little cumbersome, perhaps, but it works for the example you give...

- Kevin

Kevin Williams
XML Architect, Ultraprise Corporation

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ross Cormier [mailto:merex@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 8:35 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: variable and match
> 
> 
> OK, then how can I dynamically create a template in XSLT?
> 


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