RE: retrieving a piece of data from a different xml file

<xsl:variable name="locs" select="document('pagelocations.xml')">
</xsl:variable>

later

<xsl:template match="link">
	<a>
		<xsl:atribute name="href"><xsl:value-of
select="$locs/pagelocations/item[@name = @page]/location" /></xsl:attribute>
	</a>
</xsl:template>

Comes to mind but I haven't tried it.
Ciao Chris

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Eric Taylor
>Sent: 01 August 2000 19:36
>To: 'XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
>Subject: retrieving a piece of data from a different xml file
>
>
>in mainfile.XML (the one I'm primarily displaying info from), I have a tag
>like this:
>
>     <link page="B".../>
>
>in pagelocations.XML, I have something like this:
>
>     <pagelocations>
>       <item name="A" location="path\filename"/>
>       <item name="B" location="path\filename"/>
>       ...
>     </pagelocations>
>
>in my XSL, when I match <link>, I want to look in
>pagelocations.xml and find
>the item where item[@name]=@page and then use @location from that item.  I
>have no clue how to do this.  Thanks from a still-stumbling novice.  Eric
>
>
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