Hi,

I'd like to know if it is possible to call external programs from my stylesheet that would return a node for example. Ths goal of this is to be able to parse a complicated flat string with perl and return a list of nodes.

Thanks

It's possible in principle, but the details depend entirely on the XSLT processor that you are using. Look in the product documentation for "extension functions".

With XSLT 2.0 you can do some pretty complex string parsing within the XSLT language, using instructions such as xsl:analyze-string.

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

Hi,

I have the following problem:


Here is the fragment of the script:
<xsl:template match="some-template">
  <xsl:variable name="xslScript">...</xsl:variable>
  <xsl:variable name="xmlFile">...</xsl:variable>
  <xsl:variable name="startMode">...</xsl:variable>

  ... Here I need to call stylesheet $xslScript for $xmlFile file in mode $startMode to retrive some node set...
</xsl:template>

How can it be implemented using the Microsoft XSL transformer?