loading multiple documents using variables

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Subject: loading multiple documents using variables
From: Ralph Holz <Ralph.Holz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 15:25:35 +0100

Hi,

I have the following scenario here:

My XML files contains elements with "id" attributes, which serve as "links" to several files, as in this example:

<doc id="byers01" />,

where "byers01" actually refers to a file called "byers01.xml".

(Yes, there is a reason why I don't want to add the file extension in the @id. I need it elsewhere, too!)

What I'd like to do now is load multiple documents during the transformation process, something like:

<xsl:for-each select="doc">
        <xsl:variable name="name"><xsl:value-of select="@id" /></xsl:variable>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="document('C:\{$name}.xml')" />
</xsl:for-each>

I'd like to use Xalan Java 2 for this.

The error I get now is that document() needs a valid URI as input, and "{" is an offending character:

(Location of error unknown)XSLT Error (javax.xml.transform.TransformerException): javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: org.apache.xml.utils.URI$MalformedUR IException: Path contains invalid character: {

Obviously, the $name variable is not resolved, but seen as part of the URI argument of document().

Does anyone have an idea how I can load and process multiple documents in such a for-each construction? I'd like to keep my "data format" (ids as links...) as it is.

Thanks a lot,
Ralph

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loading multiple documents using variables Ralph Holz - Thu, 4 Apr 2002 09:23:56 -0500 (EST) <= Bryan Rasmussen - Thu, 4 Apr 2002 10:02:29 -0500 (EST) Michael Kay - Thu, 4 Apr 2002 10:19:26 -0500 (EST) Bryan Rasmussen - Thu, 4 Apr 2002 10:33:25 -0500 (EST) Thomas B. Passin - Thu, 4 Apr 2002 10:35:42 -0500 (EST)

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