I need an onclick function to call an xsl template and am having trouble doing so

<script type="text/javascript">
function load()
{
  <xsl:call-template name="thename" />
}
</script>

<a href="#" onclick="load()">load it</a>


the above code is an example of what I have on one particular template in an xsl file....I need the onclick event to load the other template, also on the same xsl file.

any suggestions

You can't put an XSLT instruction in the middle of your Javascript code any more than you can put a Javascript instruction in the middle of a C program.

What you can do is to invoke a stylesheet transformation using the API provided by your XSLT processor. This starts the XSLT processing at the top level - it must supply an input document to be processed, and the stylesheet produces an output document which the Javascript code can then manipulate (typically by displaying it).

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

I'm new to XSLT (Like most people here it seems) but I'm soaking up as much info as I can and this forum has been excellent.

When I started out, this was also probably my original plan of action as well.

I now understand that (correct me if I'm wrong) that if the XML is transformed via the XSL stylesheet on loading in the browser, that and javascript changes will not affect the output unless the page is reloaded with new templates to apply. And that call-template and apply-template are processed during (and only during) transformation.

That being said, is there a way to take a global javascript variable and make it equal in value to a global XSL parameter so that the user can input a value and the transformation will be loaded into an iframe?

(I thought that asking a straightforward question first might be smarter than pasting my huge pages of code and asking "WHY ISN'T THIS WORKING THE WAY I WANT IT TO?!"

Thanks in advance.

You can't do what you want via a transform kicked off via an xsl-stylesheet processing instruction. The standard way to do it is to have some script in an HTML page that reads the location.search and then invokes the transformation after setting the necessary parameter.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)