"Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" <oleg@NO!SPAM!PLEASEtkachenko.com> wrote in message
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> Richard L Rosenheim wrote:
> > Is it possible to include addition tags in a XSLT file, that the XSLT
> > processor will, for all practical purposes, ignore?
> >
> > What I'm looking to do is to include a section to contain information
> > regarding what parameters the XSLT file is expecting. Then my program
can
> > retrieve the information from the style sheet and prompt the user for
the
> > necessary parameters. I'm envisioning the section would be something
like
> > this:
> >
> > <myParameters>
> > <Param name="City" prompt="City to search for" />
> > <Param name="State" prompt="State to search for" />
> > </myParameters>
>
> Sure you can do it. XSLT spec explicitly allows elements in non-XSLT
> namespaces (excluding empty namespace) to be at stylesheet's top level
> (children of xsl:stylesheet). That's quite common XSLT technique usually
> called embedded lookup table:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet ... xmlns:my="http://my.com">
> <my:Parameters>
> <Param name="City" prompt="City to search for" />
> <Param name="State" prompt="State to search for" />
> </my:Parameters>
> ...
>
> And then you can query this embedded XML content using document()
> function with empty string as an argument:
>
> <xsl:variable name="term" select="'City'"/>
> <xsl:value-of
> select="document('')/*/my:Parameters/Param[@name=$term]/@prompt"/>
>
> --
> Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, MCP]
> http://blog.tkachenko.com

Richard L Rosenheim wrote:
> Is it possible to include addition tags in a XSLT file, that the XSLT
> processor will, for all practical purposes, ignore?
>
> What I'm looking to do is to include a section to contain information
> regarding what parameters the XSLT file is expecting. Then my program can
> retrieve the information from the style sheet and prompt the user for the
> necessary parameters. I'm envisioning the section would be something like
> this:
>
> <myParameters>
> <Param name="City" prompt="City to search for" />
> <Param name="State" prompt="State to search for" />
> </myParameters>