Re: Getting at original document from inside document(

Hi Phil,

> I was hoping that something like document('')/book/@title would get
> the answer, but it looks like this gets the stylesheet, not the
> original input document.

Whenever I have a stylesheet that deals with multiple documents, I
have a global variable to hold the root node of the source XML
document:

<xsl:variable name="source" select="/" />

This guarantees that I can get back to the information from the
original source document no matter where I am. So you can use:

  $source/book/@title

to get the title of the book.

> Maybe there is a case for adding something to the next XSL to do
> this?

While I think this particular problems can be addressed as above, I
agree that it's often helpful to be able to get hold of the URI for
the source document, and even the stylesheet, for example to add
comments like:

<!-- transformed from source.xml by my favourite XSLT processor -->

Perhaps a base-uri() function or extending the system-property()
function:

  system-property('xsl:source-uri')
  system-property('xsl:stylesheet-uri')

Cheers,

Jeni

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