Can I pass parameter from command line to use inside transform?

ilyaz · December 10th, 2010, 04:36 PM

I am using Saxon to do XML-to-XML conversion from command line. Is there any way of passing a parameter from the command line to be used by the transform? For instance, suppose I have the following segment:

Code:

<xsl:param name="index" select="1000"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:for-each select=...
	<container><xsl:value-of select="position() + $index"/></container>
...

So this would be generating XML like

Code:

<container>1001</container>
<container>1002</container>
<container>1003</container>
...

Now suppose I want to pass the starting value for index as a parameter so that, for instance, for the 1st file it starts from 1000, for the second from 1500 etc. Can I do it using Saxon? What would be the proper XSLT syntax to use the passed value?

Thanks much

samjudson · December 10th, 2010, 05:17 PM

You don't need to change your XSLT - using <xsl:param> is how you create parameters you pass in to stylesheets.

Simply follow the instructions here: http://www.saxonica.com/documentatio...ommandline.xml

java net.sf.saxon.Transform -s:source -xsl:stylesheet -o:output index=1000