Building select-clause dynamically with parameters

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Subject: Building select-clause dynamically with parameters
From: Marko Petersen <lg002237@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:39:48 +0100

Hi,

I would like to pass some words into my XSL file which should be used
to build an XPath query in xsl:apply-templates. For an example, the following
works, but only for one word:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
   <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
   	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"

<xsl:param name="query"/>

<xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:apply-templates select="chapter[contains(descendant-or-self::*,$query)]"/> </xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="chapter | section"> <table> <tr> <td> </td> <td>Found <xsl:value-of select="title"/> <xsl:apply-templates select="section[contains(descendant-or-self::*, $query)]"/> </td> </tr> </table> </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

I don't know how many words will be passed into the XSL file, this should be flexible. For example, If $query has the value "word1 word2", the only chapters and sections that should be selected by apply-templates are those which contain word1 or word2, I think in this case need I something like:

<xsl:apply-templates select="chapter[contains(descendant-or-self::*,'word1') or contains(descendant-or-self::*,'word2')]"/>

I tried to pass the whole string used by "select" as parameter, but it does not work.

Another thing is that I also have words that should be excluded and that I would like to pass a value into the XSL file that should define if it is an AND or an OR query to build something like:

<xsl:apply-templates select="chapter[contains(descendant-or-self::*,'word1') and contains(descendant-or-self::*,'word2') and not(contains(descendant-or-self::*,'word3'))]"/>

Has anyone an idea how to do something like this? Or is it a better solution to do this with Java DOM?

Thanks for help and greetings,

Marko

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Building select-clause dynamically with parameters Marko Petersen - Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:33:31 -0500 (EST) <= Michael Kay - Wed, 11 Dec 2002 04:33:38 -0500 (EST) Marko Petersen - Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:01:14 -0500 (EST) <Possible follow-ups> Dimitre Novatchev - Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:02:25 -0500 (EST) Marko Petersen - Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:35:39 -0500 (EST)

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