Re: Determining Web server address in xslt doc

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Subject: Re: Determining Web server address in xslt doc
From: Robert Koberg <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:53:13 -0500

On Jan 26, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Lee Surma wrote:

FYI I am a newbie who has been tasked with maintaining

some existing XSLT. I would like to make some XSLT dynamic
across environments using a choose statement.

Is there a way I can determine the root of the Web server
where the XSLT document is so I can hard code URL
addresses etc based on if I'm in Dev vs Production?
Example:
dev.imanewbiefool.com Vs
uat.imanewbiefool.com or
www..imanewbiefool.com

In HTML you can use the CGI REMOTE_HOST variable.

Anyway, you can't get it with XSL alone. You probably want to vary on parameters or some non-source-controlled XML lookup that you pull in with the document function.

Another way would be to wrap the source xml instance with the host information. For example:

<dev.imanewbiefool.com>
  ... the wrapped xml...
</dev.imanewbiefool.com>

and

<www.imanewbiefool.com>
  ... the wrapped xml...
</www.imanewbiefool.com>

Then, instead of using a possibly huge choose, you can just match the root element:

<xsl:import href="hosts.xsl"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

and in hosts.xsl you could either import your individual hosts statically or generate your hosts based of a directory containing however many unique host xsls. Or just match them there:

<xsl:template match="dev.imanewbiefool.com">
... do whatev...
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="www.imanewbiefool.com">
... do whatev...
</xsl:template>

-Rob

Lee

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Determining Web server address in xslt doc Lee Surma - 26 Jan 2009 20:37:02 -0000 Houghton,Andrew - 26 Jan 2009 20:44:30 -0000 Florent Georges - 26 Jan 2009 20:51:04 -0000 Robert Koberg - 26 Jan 2009 20:53:31 -0000 <= Michael Kay - 26 Jan 2009 21:03:14 -0000

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