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Subject: RE: Re: whats the best way to create and use values for lookup (key-value) such that you can loop through it with limits
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:17:06 -0400

Abhishek,

For reasons explained by Ken, I don't think your solution will work the way you are describing; but I'm not sure you need the control over the scope of variables you say you require.....

At 08:58 PM 9/13/2003, you wrote:

Now my document has various chapters which have various sections where a
given section can have any number of matrices (matrix) and/or
paragraphs.

Now in the XSL for this I need to be able to HARD-CODE certain values
INTO A SECTION  that are to be used by all INNER TEMPLATES (namely,
Matrix, Paragraph, Items, SubItems etc.) ( But are NOT accessible to
other section matches

By this, do you mean hard-code these values into your source document, or into your stylesheet?

If into your source document, then each section would contain a particular set of nodes providing the parameters you want. So a section could look like:

<section SectionHeading='MySectionSomething1'>
<table-params>
  <col which="MC1Width">30</col>
  <col which="MC2Width">40</col>
  <col which="MC3Width">25</col>
  <col which="MC4Width">50</col>
  <col which="MC5Width">70</col>
</table-params>

Then in your stylesheet, the values are accessible from any template, given an XPath. So inside a table, you could always retrieve ancestor::section[1]/table-params/col[@which=$colName] ... or you can first bind ancestor::section/table-params/col to a variable colSpecs and then ask for $colSpecs[@which=$colName]....

If you want these values to be in the stylesheet, then use the lookup table technique Dimitre demonstrated....

<my:table-specs>
  <section SectionHeading='MySectionSomething1'>
    <col which="MC1Width">30</col>
    <col which="MC2Width">40</col>
    <col which="MC3Width">25</col>
    <col which="MC4Width">50</col>
    <col which="MC5Width">70</col>
  </section>
  <section SectionHeading='MySectionSomething2'>
    ....
  </section>
</my:table-specs>

Binding my:table-specs to a variable

<xsl:variable name="table-specs" select="document('')/*/my:table-specs"/>

You can always say

$table-specs[@SectionHeading=current()/ancestor::Section[@SectionHeading]/col[@which=$colName]

I hope that helps. Many times "parameterizing" something in XSLT doesn't actually require formal parameters or variables -- it's just retrieving node values (but those values have to be in a tree somewhere, or calculable).

Cheers,
Wendell


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