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Using parameters with saxon:transform?
Added by Anonymous over 18 years ago
Legacy ID: #3634450
Legacy Poster: Andrew Savikas (andrewsavikas)
Anyone know of any way to pass parameters when using the saxon:transform() extension
function? I'm trying to pipe an xml document through a series of xslt stylesheets, some
of which I'd like to accept parameters. I started with a series of separate calls to
saxon8.jar (using a simple ruby wrapper script), but that means loading the JVM for each
command-line call to saxon. A combination of saxon:compile-stylesheet() and
saxon:transform() solves the JVM-loading issue, but now I can't figure out how to pass
parameters to those stylesheets. Any suggestions are appreciated. Cheers, Andrew
Savikas
Legacy ID: #3634779
Legacy Poster: Michael Kay (mhkay)
This can't be done currently. There was a recent discussion on the topic, around the
difficulties of coming up with a good design for an API within the constraints of the
XPath type system. In a pipeline of transformations, the obvious thing to do is to add
the "parameter" information to the document being passed as input to
the transformation.
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