Depending on your command line interpreter, you have to do different
things. The first is that, if you want your params to be strings, you make
them strings:
Xalan -p TITLE 'Bar' -o param.out param.xml param.xsl
Since some command line interpreters use ' as a special character, you may
need to escape it. If you don't know how your command line interpreter
works, you should consult the documentation. On Win32, for example, the
following:
Xalan -p TITLE "'Bar'" -o param.out param.xml param.xsl
yields:
Testing title for the value(Bar)
Testing the title: Foo
Testing the title: Bar
Found the title you wanted!
Testing the title: Baz
I'm assuming using param.out as the stylesheet file is a typo...
Dave
"Rachael
Ludwick-Sandefer To:
<[email protected]>
" cc: (bcc: David N
Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Stylesheet parameters
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12/11/2002 09:47
AM
I wanted to use XalanTransformer::setStylesheetParam in an application, but
I wanted to test out how it worked (i.e. how to indicate the param in the
stylesheet itself). I have this xml (param.xml)
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<books>
<title>Foo</title>
<title>Bar</title>
<title>Baz</title>
</books>
Being used with this stylesheet (param.xsl)
<xsl:stylesheet version = '1.0'
xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:param name="TITLE"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:text>
Testing title for the value(</xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="$TITLE"/><xsl:text>)
</xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates select="//title"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="title">
<xsl:text>Testing the title: </xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="text()"/><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
<xsl:if test="$TITLE = text()"><xsl:text>
Found the title you wanted!
</xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Using this command-line: Xalan -p TITLE Bar -o param.out param.xml
param.out
param.out looks like this:
Testing title for the value()
Testing the title: Foo
Testing the title: Bar
Testing the title: Baz
I would expect that the value in the parenthesis to be Bar and to get a
match from the $TITLE = text() line, but I don't.
Am I just completely misunderstanding how this works? I couldn't find a bug
in bugzilla for this, so I'm guessing it's user error here, not Xalan. This
example is similar to an example given in an XSLT faq at: <
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N5982.html#d5626e85>
Thanks,
Rachael
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