Hi there,

is there a built-in function or a way that I could find out the filename of the source xml that i am translating in my XSLT?

To give a context of what I would hope to achieve is ..... I am translating a bunch of XML files, one after another. In my xslt, I perform various node test and if nodes are missing, I would like to create an error node that provides information about the parent node of the missing node. this information would be the position of the parent node and the filename that this error occured.

for eg.
input1.xml

<fruit>
  <apple>
    <type>royal</type>
    <qty>2</qty>
  </apple>
  <orange>
    <type>sour</type>
  </orange>
</fruit>

in my result
errorlisting.xml


<errors>
  <orange>
    <desc>missing node</desc>
    <file>input1</file>
    <node>2</node>
  </orange>
</errors>

so, is there a way i can find out the source xml filename?

thanks

There is no built-in way of doing this in version 1.0. The standard workaround is to have a global parameter such as sourceUri which you set before doing the transform. How you do that depends on which processor you are using.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

XSLT 2.0 has the function document-uri(). In XSLT 1.0, the usual solution is to pass the source filename as a parameter to the stylesheet.

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