Question

If I send this request to a page:

http://www.server.com/show.xml?color=red&number=two 

Can I do something like this?:

I like the color <xsl:url-param name='color' /> and the number <xsl:url-param name='number' />. 

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If you need clarification of the question, lemme know

Thanks for any answers,

Chrelad

Answer 1

No; in general, XSL engines aren’t tied to a web server.

However, most XSL engines allow you to pass in some parameters along with your stylesheet and document so what you can do, if you’re calling it from a web-enabled system, is map your GET parameters directly through to your XSL engine.

For instance, if you were using PHP, you could do something like this:

<?php  $params = array(     'color' => $_GET['color'],     'number' => $_GET['number'] );  $xsl = new DOMDocument; $xsl->load('mystylesheet.xsl');  $xml = new DOMDocument; $xml->load('mydocument.xml');  $proc = new XSLTProcessor; $proc->importStyleSheet($xsl); // attach the xsl rules  foreach ($params as $key => $val)     $proc->setParameter('', $key, $val);  echo $proc->transformToXML($xml); 

You’d have to make sure you sanitize anything you passed-through. Then, you can simply do:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <xsl:stylesheet    version='1.0'    xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>   <!-- Remember to pick-up the parameters from the engine -->   <xsl:param name='color' />   <xsl:param name='number' />   <xsl:template match='*'>     I like the color <xsl:value-of select='$color' />      and the number <xsl:value-of select='$number' />.   </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>