Question

I need to declare a fixed sequence of numbers. How do I do this?

For example, is it (I’m guessing here):

<xsl:element name="xsl:param">
    <xsl:attribute name="name">MySequence</xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:sequence>(1,2,3,4)</xsl:sequence>
</xsl:element>

or

<xsl:element name="xsl:param">
    <xsl:attribute name="name">MySequence</xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:sequence>1,2,3,4</xsl:sequence>
</xsl:element>

or what?

Thanks

Answer 1

If you’re using XSLT 2.0, you can just create the sequence directly in the select like:

<xsl:param name="MySequence" select="('1','2','3','4')"/>

XSLT based verification…

XSLT 2.0

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output method="text"/>
    <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

    <xsl:param name="seq" select="('23453','74365','98','653')"/>

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:for-each select="$seq">
            <xsl:value-of select="concat('Item ',position(),': ',.,'&#xA;')"/>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

applied to any XML input produces:

Item 1: 23453
Item 2: 74365
Item 3: 98
Item 4: 653