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Subject: Re: Re: Defining a key for a string in another xml document
From: Ram <sram_30@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 11:05:01 -0800 (PST)
xslt key lookup
Thanks Dimitre.
BR,
Ram


--- Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> "Ram" <sram_30@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:20031128132407.64964.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi,
> >  I've to define a key to get the content of a tag from another xml
> file.
> > I've defined a key to retrieve the content in the current xml document
> > like this:
> >
> > <xsl:key name="CurrentGroupByIdentifier" match="group"
> > use="identifier[1]"/>
> >
> >  But how to do this for another xml file?
> >
> >  Jarno suggested how to search a string in another xml file like:
> >
> > document($filename, /)/descendant::text()[contains(., $yourString)]
> 
> I guess this must be in the xsl-FAQ -- search for lookup.
> 
> You have to be sure that the current document is the one you want to
> search.
> This can be done using the following code:
> 
>   <xsl:for-each select="document('whateverURI')">
> 
>    <!-- Use the key() function, e.g.: -->
>    <xsl:copy-of select="key('CurrentGroupByIdentifier', 'xxx')"/>
> 
>   </xsl:for-each>
> 
> The purpose of the xsl:for-each above is only to make the necessary
> document
> the current document. As it specifies a node-list of only one node (the
> root
> node of the document), the body of this xsl:for-each instruction will be
> applied only once, which is exactly what we want.
> 
> 
> 
> =====
> Cheers,
> 
> Dimitre Novatchev.
> http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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