Extrac URL from in the XSL file

MM_lost · January 13th, 2006, 03:48 AM

Hi,

i am new to XSLT. i guess my problem is simple but i just cant make it work. i would like to extract in the XSL file the URL of the processed XML file.

so for exmple, i have the XML file "test.xml", which starts as with the tag:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://ww.blabla.ch/this.xsl"?>

so in the XSL file "this.xsl" i would like to write out in HTML the URL of the XML file "test.xml". for example to make a simple HTML page as:

<html>
<body>

<p> The processed xml file has the link: 'link_of_the_xml_file'</p>
</body>
</html>

thanks much for help!
Lukas

mhkay · January 13th, 2006, 05:03 AM

You need to pass the filename or URI as a parameter to the transformation.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

MM_lost · January 13th, 2006, 05:14 AM

Hi Michael,

first thanks for your answer. however, i am still a bit lost. would you mind to detail how i could pass the filename to the xsl? do i have to write the filename in the xml file so it can be extracted by the xsl? or is there a smarter way.

thanks much,
lukas

mhkay · January 13th, 2006, 05:36 AM

Sorry, I didn't spot that you were invoking the transformation using the <?xml-stylesheet?> PI. This doesn't allow you to pass parameters to the stylesheet, unfortunately. Assuming you are running the transformation within the browser, you would need to switch to using a JavaScript API to run the transformation, for example the Microsoft API or the cross-browser Sarissa API.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

MM_lost · January 13th, 2006, 05:54 AM

hmâ¦ but wouldnt it be possible to just extract the URL of the transfromed XML file in the XSL file? like here with the fictional function "get_XML_URL()" :

<xsl:variable name="CURRENT_URL">
<xsl:value-of select="get_XML_URL()"/>
</xsl:variable>

cant believe that this is not possibleâ¦???