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With XSLT 2.0, you can use the doc-available(string? $uri) function.
On 8/28/06, Laky Tang <tulaky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: I have followed various postings and I am led to believe that XSL does not have any built in capability to check if a file exists or not. I read there is a way to check using extensions, but the following example gives me an error "Namespace 'java.io.File' does not contain any functions" in IE and XML spy. It works incorrectly in Firefox / Flock by always saying the file does not exist (even if it does). Changing XSLT 1.0 to 2.0 did not make any difference. I find it quite ironic that XSLT lacks this basic capability to check if a file exists-or-not given its main use is in working with XML documents (and files). If there is a simple way to gracefully handle the condition, can somebody please point me in the right direction? Thanks, -Tulaky Example adapted from another posting: ------------------------ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-functions" xmlns:xdt="http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-datatypes" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <!-- my other templates go here which call this with the filename--> <xsl:template name="file_exists" xmlns:file="java.io.File"> <xsl:param name="filename" /> -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi http://gandhimukul.tripod.com
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