Saxon

Legacy ID: #3148082 Legacy Poster: Michael Kay (mhkay)

You can declare a parameter in your stylesheet using a top-level xsl:param element, for example <xsl:param name="p" as="xs:string" required="yes"/> and then you can supply a value for the parameter using the setParameter() method on the JAXP Transformer class. The second question doesn't relate to Saxon (it relates to the XML parser) and I'm afraid I don't know the answer to it. Michael Kay

Legacy ID: #3148152 Legacy Poster: Curtis (cdfisher07)

Here is a technique you might find useful for setting the parameters. This is 1.5 code so you may have to translate to 1.4. Create a HashMap in a servlet or other Java class and populate it like so... HashMap<String, String> params = new HashMap<String, String>(2); params.put("uid", request.getParameter("userid")); params.put("pwd", request.getParameter("pwd")); I then have another class that I instantiate from my servlet (keep in mind I am not trying to make an MVC complient application here, just an exercise) that contains the following method: public void setTemplateParameters(HashMap<String,String> templateParams) { for (Map.Entry <String, String> entry : templateParams.entrySet()) { transformer.setParameter(entry.getKey(),entry.getValue()); } } The above is 1.5 code so you will have to set it up to work with 1.4. My parameters are set, and I then invoke the different types of methods in the instantiated class to process my templates. Michael's book XSLT 2.0 contains various examples of the JAXP interface that saxon uses. Look up what you need and then open the Java classes under samples in the Saxon download and peruse the Servlet and TRAXExamples. You'll find a bunch of code that can be reused in your own design. Hope this helps... Curtis Fisher