Hi,

I want to use an XSL stylesheet to represent the data in an XML file I have. Though I have to make selections very much. So i thougth that I could send information in the URL (like www.foo.se/boe.xml?id=1) where I can get the information from id and use it to select in my xml.

Is this possible and if so how do I implement that in my code. I'm very new to the use of XML and XSL..

Giel.

You need some kind of application to invoke the transformation. In this application, extract the query parameters from the URL and pass them as stylesheet parameters (global <xsl:param> values) to the stylesheet. The API for doing this depends on the XSLT processor you are choosing to use: look for a method such as addParameter() or setParameter(). You may find a packaged application to do the job, for example Saxon supplies sample servlet code SaxonServlet.java which takes a URL with parameters in the form described.

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