Re: More than one parameter for stylesheet

Hello,

sorry the mismatching category name was my mistake. I wanted to simplify it
but only changed the upper part.

I think you helped me a lot in simplifying the stylesheet. As I said I am
not an expert and I kept that stylesheet because it worked. When I look at
your stylesheet, however, I have another question:

<xsl:param name="cat" select="'CAT1'"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
       <bookshelf>
         <xsl:copy-of select="//*[*/category[@categoryid=$cat]/*"/>
       </bookshelf>
     </xsl:template>   

What does the first line exactly mean? As I mentioned before, I want to
insert the parameter via command line. So, why should I set it in the first
line to CAT1 (assuming that I want to insert CAT1 - CAT39 in the command
line)? I assume I would need something that assigs the parameter from the
commandline to the variable. How wouild this look like?

How would the command line look like since I would have two -IN parameters
(see my original posting)?

Many thanks for your help,
Karl

> --- Urspr|ngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
> An: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Betreff: Re:  More than one parameter for stylesheet
> Datum: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:29:37 +0100
> 
> 
>    The stylesheet is here:
>    
>    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>    <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>    
>      <xsl:template match="/">
>        <bookshelf>
>          <xsl:apply-templates select="//category[@categoryid='CAT1']"/> 
>        </bookshelf>
>      </xsl:template>        
>    
>      <xsl:template match="category[@categoryid='FTUKSDIV3']">
>        <xsl:copy-of select="../../*"/>                
>      </xsl:template>    
>    </xsl:stylesheet>
>    
> 
> Is that really your stylesheet (with different  categoryid)? assuming
> you don't have nested categories, It seems very strange as it is
> written as the second template woul dbever be applied.
> 
> If you had      <xsl:template match="category[@categoryid='CAT1']">
> It would be applied but there is no need to go all teh way down and then
> come back up. 
> 
> Assuming that you did intend to have the same cataegory, apparently want
> to copy all the children of the grandparent of this category, so you
> don't want to apply templates at all, just:
> 
> 
> <xsl:param name="cat" select="'CAT1'"/>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="/">
>        <bookshelf>
>          <xsl:copy-of select="//*[*/category[@categoryid=$cat]/*"/> 
>        </bookshelf>
>      </xsl:template>        
> 
> although if you know how deep you need to go replacing //* by /a/b/c is
> likely to be a big improvement.
> 
> Having the parameter in a select rather than a match is good (because
> it's illegal to have parameters in a match, although i understand xalan
> doesn't enforce that) then you can set the param cat to any string on
> the command line (the -PARAM flag for xalan)
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
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