Re: Re: Chain of XSL Transformations

Hi Adrian,

All XSLT processors that I'm using (I don't know anything about what you
call the XML-Spy processor) have an extension function xxx:node-set(),
sometimes with slightly different nams -- e.g. xalan:nodeset().

JD does not have this extension funnction, as it implements XSLT 1.1 and
there's no RTF type to convert from.

More importantly, many processors implement some functions from EXSLT and
ext:node-set() is one of them.


Probably it is relevant to know that in XSLT 2.0 the nasty RTF type has been
removed, so there isn't any need for a node-set() extension function, too.



=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL



"Adrian Grigore" <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi Dimitre,
>
> At 20:50 27.06.2003 +0200, you wrote:
> >Capture the result of a transformation in a xsl:variable, then convert
its
> >RTF value into a regular nodeset (tree) using (in your case) the
> >msxsl:node-set() extension function, then apply on this result the next
> >transformation.
> >
> >This is a routine procedure done frequently by many XSLT programmers.
>
> Thanks so much for your hint! This is exactly what I was trying to do
> before, but I just used the xsl:value-of element without the
> msxsl:node-set() function. As I have to document this in my thesis, I
would
> like to know if all xsl processors have similar functions? For example,
> what about the xsl processor used in xmlspy? Or Xalan?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Adrian Grigore
>
>
>
>
>
> >=====
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Dimitre Novatchev.
> >http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
> >
> >
> >
> >"Adrian Grigore" <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >news:5.1.1.6.0.20030627160825.04d878a0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > For some reasons which would be way too lengthy to explain, I need to
> > > perform a series of xsl transformations on a single xml document in a
> > > particular order.
> > >
> > > Doing all transformations in one xsl file does not work, so I thought
I
> > > might output the document from the first xsl template (say,
"myxsl-1.xsl")
> > > with the processing instruction <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"
> > > href="myxsl-2.xsl"?>, which would refer to the second xsl template and
so
> > > on until I reach the last template. Unfortunately this series of
> > > transformations does not work with IE, since it stops displaying the
xml
> > > document as real xml even after the the very first xsl transformation.
> > >
> > > So, is there any other tool that would take the output from the nth
xsl
> > > template and apply the next if necessary as described above? Of course
I
> > > could code something like this, but why re-invent the wheel if someone
> > > might have done it already... :-)
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > > Adrian Grigore
> > >
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