RE: Reference to a other xml or xsl in the main xsl sh

Hi,

> I'm using a xsl-stylesheet to do a transformation from one 
> xml-file  to
> another. Within these transformation I need to do a 
> replacement, where for
> example I need to replace the node-text "Holland"
> (<Country>Holland</Country>) for the country-code "HO". 
> Therefore I'm using
> the <xsl:if...> statement. I do have this <xls:if...> 
> statement in multiple
> xls-files.
> What I do want is one generic file (xml/xls) where I do have 
> standing all of
> my replacements standing. Within the xsl-file I do need a 
> reference to this
> "replacements-"file. This way, I only have to change one file if a new
> country has to be added to the list.

Create a mapping file such as

  <map>
    <item key="Holland" value="HO"/>
    ...
  </map>

and in your stylesheet

  <xsl:variable name="map" select="document('themappingfileabove.xml')/map/item"
  <xsl:template match="Country">
    <xsl:value-of select="$map[@key = current()]/@value"/>
  </xsl:template>

Cheers,

Jarno - E-Craft: Violent Freaks

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