RE: Problem with document() function on web server

The stylesheets are executed server side, and the web server is configured
by someone else. 

What parameters in the server configuration should I check? Is it possible
to restrict namespace declarations or references to external XML documents?

FYI, this is the complete template. In my attempt to be brief, I
accidentally omitted the definition of the month variable.

	<xsl:template name="FrenchDate">
		<xsl:variable name="year" select="substring-before(.,
'-')"/>
		<xsl:variable name="month" select="substring(.,6,2)"/>
		<xsl:variable name="day" select="substring(.,9,2)"/>
		<xsl:value-of select="$day"/>
		<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
		<xsl:value-of
select="document('')/*/fr:month-names/fr:month[@num=$month]"/>
		<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
		<xsl:value-of select="$year"/>
	</xsl:template>


Maria



-----Original Message-----
From: Geert Josten [mailto:Geert.Josten@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 9:52 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Problem with document() function on web server

Hi Maria,

> I tried two different versions of the document() function to format dates.
> Both versions worked on my local hard drive but not on the web server. 
> I know that I have a more recent version of Xalan on my hard drive, 
> but I am wondering if something else is causing the problem.
>  
> This version of the template, in which the monthnames were stored in 
> separate namespace, caused the stylesheet to stop transforming.
>  
>  <fr:month-names>
>   <fr:month num="01">jan</fr:month>
>   <fr:month num="02">f&#233;v</fr:month>
>   <fr:month num="03">mar</fr:month>
>  </fr:month-names>
>  
>  <xsl:template name="FrenchMonth">
>   <xsl:value-of
> select="document('')/*/fr:month-names/fr:month[@num=$month]"/>
>  </xsl:template>

I assume you are being brief here, but just to be sure: where do you define
the variable month?

> This version of the template, in which the monthnames were stored in 
> an external XML file, returned a null value.
>  
> <MonthNames>
>  <French>
>   <Name num="01">jan</Name>
>   <Name num="02">f&#233;v</Name>
>   <Name num="03">mar</Name>
>  </French>
> </MonthNames>
>  
>  <xsl:variable name="FrenchMonth"
> select="document('month_names.xml')/MonthNames/French"/>
>  <xsl:template name="FrenchMonth">
>   <xsl:value-of select="$FrenchMonth/Name[@num=$month]"/>
>  </xsl:template>

I think you can better add a namespace to the external file as well.

For the remainder, I would say that things depend on how you configured your
web server and how you execute the stylesheet. Do you execute them
server-side?

HTH,
Geert