Change your call on document() to

document(concat('../', $buildingDataFile, '/inputXML/buildingStories.xml'))

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tracey Zellmann [mailto:tracey.zellmann@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 16 September 2006 20:09
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  using a parameter to modify part of the 
> file path in document(...) function
> 
> I am using XSLT 2.0 and JAVA 1.5.0_07 and the Saxon B 
> net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl Transformer.
> 
> In my style sheet, I currently import an xml document 
> <xsl:variable name="list" 
> select="document('../inputXml/storyPages.xml')"/>
> 
> Now that everything works, I want to change my input file 
> arrangements and use different documents, each named 
> storyPages.xml, but from different directories.
> 
> examples:
> 
> ../TownHouseData/inputXML/buildingStories.xml
> ../MiddlesexHotelData/inputXML/buildingStories.xml
> ../DamonMillData/inputXML/buildingStories.xml
> 
> and so forth.
> 
> I can set a parameter in my java program, 
> transformer.setParameter("buildingDataFile", "TownHouseData");
> 
> and use a different setting for the other buildings.
> 
> My problem is that I always get confused in XSLT using 
> variables and parameters inside double and single quoted strings.
> 
> What is a clean syntax for accomplishing this?