Re: roblems with passing variables from PHP to XSLT

You want to make code a parameter to the stylesheet

  <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  version="1.0" xmlns:php="http://php.net/xsl">

  <xsl:output method="html"/>

  <xsl:param name="code" select="'PEN'"/>

then you can change the value from its default 'PEN' when you call XSLT
(the details depend on the API you are using, sorry I can't help with
php, but google or the docs will no doubt say how to initialise a
stylesheet parameter, once you have one declared).

then in an ideal world you would just replace  'PEN' in your code with
$code and it would all work:

<xsl:template match="IATA[@code=$code]/ProductItem">.....</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="IATA[@code!=$code]/ProductItem"></xsl:template>
Beware that those two tests are not mutually exclusive, you probably
want
<xsl:template match="IATA[not(@code=$code)]/ProductItem"></xsl:template>
for the second one

However unfortuantely there is a restriction in XSLT1 (which you are
using) that you can not use variables in match patterns. In XSLT2 this
restriction is gone, but in XSLT1 you have to re-write it as


<xsl:template match="IATA/ProductItem">
<xsl:if test="@code=$code">.....</xsl:if></xsl:template>
</xsl:template>

  <xsl:value-of
  select="ProductItemDetail/ProductText"
  disable-output-escaping="yes"/></p>

Don't use  disable-output-escaping unless you are sure you really need
it (and even then don't use it unless your really can't avoid it).



David

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