Re: Create XML from XPath expressions

There are techniques to do it all in a single stylesheet, but it
sounds like a meta-stylesheet could be what you need - google that
term and have a look at xsl:namespace-alias:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#element-namespace-alias

2009/8/18 Heiko Niemann <kontakt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I would like to build the new document based on the data in the diff
> result xml. As far as I know there are no dynamic templates, so there is
> no way to use the xpath expression of the Path element in the match
> attribute. But I might be wrong. The term meta-stylesheet sounds good -
> had not heard of it yet - and I need to do some research on it.
>
> Thanks, Heiko
>
>
>> Or possibly a meta-stylesheet that would create something like (as
>> part of an identity transform):
>>
>> <xsl:template match="/item/street">
>>   <xsl:copy>
>>     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
>>     <xsl:text>2020 Washington Ave.</xsl:text>
>>   </xsl:copy>
>> </xsl:template>
>>
>>
>> 2009/8/18 Michael Ludwig <mlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> Heiko Niemann schrieb:
>>>
>>>> <Difference>
>>>> <Type>update</Type>
>>>> <Path>/item/street</Path>
>>>> <NodeType>Element</NodeType>
>>>> <NodeName>street</NodeName>
>>>> <NewValue>2020 Washington Ave.</NewValue>
>>>> </Difference>
>>>
>>>> Now I want to build a new xml based on the XPath expressions in each
>>>> Path element just using XSLT.
>>>
>>> Moin Heiko,
>>>
>>> I think you need an eval function to achieve what you want, which seems
>>> to be dynamically evaluating XPath expressions supplied as strings.
>>>
>>> You might want to take a look at Saxon's saxon:evaluate() extension
>>> function.
>>>
>>> http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/extensions/functions.html
>>>
>>> --
>>> Michael Ludwig
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andrew Welch
>> http://andrewjwelch.com
>> Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/
>
>



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