Re: Keeping a map in my XSL

On 9/13/05, Nathan Young (natyoung) <natyoung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Kevin, I've done something like what you want to do using the document
> function and xpaths.  I agree with Andrew's suggestion about not relying
> on document order to associate key/value pairs, but we have values that
> can contain elements so we use something more like:
>
> <map>
>    <key name="1">value of name 1</key>
>    <key name="7">value of name 7</key>
> </map>
>
> That's in a separate file from the xsl (say map.xml).
>
> Then in the xsl you can use:
>
> <xsl:variable name="map" select="document('map.xml')"/>
>
> To get then value for 1 you can use:
>
> <xsl:value-of select="$map//key[@name='1']/>
>
> Andrew would your xsl:key solution apply to this?  If so how?

Sure, define the key:

<xsl:key name="mappings" match="key" use="@name"/>

then:

<xsl:for-each select="$map">
  <xsl:value-of select="key('mappings', '1')"/>
</xsl:for-each>