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Thanks much Wendell. I guess this is exactly I am trying to achieve. Appreciate your help. Regards, Abhi --- Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Abhi, > > At 12:41 PM 10/8/2003, you wrote: > >What I would like to know is that is there a way to > >get the values of these paramters from another XML > >file dynamically. I mean depending on the attribute > >values in the XML I want to conver to PDF I would > like > >to get values from another XML for the above > mentioned > >attributes. I think this is like opening a XML file > >through XSL and accessing the content in the XML. > >I would like to know if this is feasible and if > anyone > >has tried something similar. > > Yes it is, and yes they (we) have. > > Check out the document() function. Retrieve your > external configuration > into a node-set with an expression like: > > <xsl:variable name="styles" > select="document('styles.xml')"/> > > And then traverse it to retrieve its values with > expressions like > > <fo:block > space-before="{$styles/*/chapter/space-before}"/> > > Cheers, > Wendell > > > ====================================================================== > Wendell Piez > mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Mulberry Technologies, Inc. > http://www.mulberrytech.com > 17 West Jefferson Street Direct > Phone: 301/315-9635 > Suite 207 > Phone: 301/315-9631 > Rockville, MD 20850 > Fax: 301/315-8285 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing > in SGML and XML > ====================================================================== > > > XSL-List info and archive: > http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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