Re: document() question

At 99/09/15 20:11 -0700, Terris wrote:

I have a string in a variable and I want to convert it
to a document via the document() function.

Trying to feed a variable of rich markup to the document() function is impossible.

T:\ftemp>type doc2.xml
<BookList>
   <Book id="1"/>
   <Book id="2"/>
</BookList>

T:\ftemp>type list4.xsl
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0">

<xsl:variable name="first">
  <Book id="1"><Name>The wizard of OZ</Name></Book>
  <Book id="2"><Name>Java Servlet Programming</Name></Book>
  <Book id="3"><Name>John Coltrane Rage</Name></Book>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:variable name="second">
  <Book id="1"><Name>An Uninteresting Book</Name></Book>
  <Book id="2"><Name>Another Uninteresting Book</Name></Book>
  <Book id="3"><Name>Yet Another Uninteresting Book</Name></Book>
</xsl:variable>

 <!--source of data; default can be overridden on command line-->
<xsl:param name="source" select="'first'"/>

<xsl:template match="/BookList">          <!--document element-->
  <BookList>
    <xsl:for-each select="Book">
      <Book id="{@id}">
        <xsl:variable name="id" select="string(@id)"/>
        <xsl:for-each select='document("")'><!--the stylesheet-->
          <xsl:copy-of select="//xsl:variable[@name=$source]
                                /Book[@id=$id]
                                /*"/>
        </xsl:for-each>
      </Book>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </BookList>
</xsl:template>

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