It's not very clear to me what you are trying to do but I'm going to
guess that you are processing two documents, one with layout
information, and the other with the actual data. You want to tell a
template that is processing your layout nodes what book it is supposed
to be getting data from?
Instead of using a global variable to store the position, try passing
the position to the templates using <xsl:with-param> inside of the
<xsl:apply-templates> and <xsl:call-template> elements. You could also
just pass the book node as the parameter...
Below is an implementation similar to what I think you are trying to do...
**XSL**
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:variable name="layout" select="document('layout.xml')/layout"/>
<xsl:variable name="books" select="/books"/>
<xsl:template match="/books">
<xsl:for-each select="book">
<xsl:apply-templates select="$layout/*">
<xsl:with-param name="position" select="position()"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="insertItem">
<xsl:param name="position"/>
<outer-item-stuff>
<xsl:apply-templates>
<xsl:with-param name="position" select="$position"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</outer-item-stuff>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="insertName">
<xsl:param name="position"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$books/book[position()=$position]/name"/>
</xsl:template>
<!-- copy everything, continue param propagation -->
<xsl:template match="@*|*">
<xsl:param name="position"/>
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates>
<xsl:with-param name="position" select="$position"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
** Book.xml **
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<books>
<book>
<name>The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe</name>
</book>
<book>
<name>Prince Caspian</name>
</book>
<book>
<name>The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader'</name>
</book>
<book>
<name>The Silver Chair</name>
</book>
</books>
** layout.xml **
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout>
<insertItem>
<name>
<insertName/>
</name>
<hr/>
</insertItem>
</layout>
** Output **
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<outer-item-stuff>
<name>
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
</name>
<hr/>
</outer-item-stuff>
<outer-item-stuff>
<name>
Prince Caspian
</name>
<hr/>
</outer-item-stuff>
<outer-item-stuff>
<name>
The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader'
</name>
<hr/>
</outer-item-stuff>
<outer-item-stuff>
<name>
The Silver Chair
</name>
<hr/>
</outer-item-stuff>--------------------------------
Hope that helps,
Josh
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 00:52:09 -0300, IceT <icetbr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello everebody,
I have something like this code in my xsl
<xsl:template match="insertItem">
<xsl:for-each select="$book/itens">
<xsl:apply-templates select="$layout//insertItens/*" />
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="insertName">
<xsl:value-of select="$book/itens/name"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@*|*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
How can I make the template "insertItens" to use a diferrent name
everytime it is called? I want to achieve something like
<xsl:template match="insertName">
<xsl:param name="position" />
<xsl:value-of select="$book/itens/name[$position]"/>
</xsl:template>
though I ca't call this template directly, because there is some nodes
tha need to be "copied" to the output first when the "for each" is being
processed. I needed an alterable global variable, but that is not
possible in XSL.
Did I explain the situation correctly?
Thanks.
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