- From: T. V. Raman <tvraman@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:16:33 -0800
- To: "Roman Huditsch" <roman.huditsch@hico.com>
- Cc: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>, <www-forms@w3.org>
Think of this as the more general problem of writing an XSL transform that in turns produces an XSL transform. You should be able to do what you need using that approach. >>>>> "Roman" == Roman Huditsch <roman.huditsch@hico.com> writes: Roman> Hi alltogehther! I have some basic problems, Roman> which I hope to be able to solve with your help. Roman> Basically what I want is to transform an xform Roman> document (not embedded in XHTML) into an html Roman> document with all the needed html form controls. Roman> I know that it is not the intended way to display Roman> xform documents ;), but I have to do it like that Roman> in the meantime. Lets say I have an xform Roman> document like the following: Roman> <xform:model> <xform:submitInfo Roman> id="SubmitInfo1"/> <xform:instance> Roman> <applicationform> <applicant> <gender>m</gender> Roman> <name>Roman Huditsch</name> ...... Roman> </xform:instance> <xform:model> Roman> <xform:input Roman> ref="/applicationform/applicant[1]/name"/> Roman> <xform:input Roman> ref="/applicationform/applicant[2]/name"/> .... Roman> I'd like to use the value of a ref attribute as Roman> an XPath expression in my stylesheet. I want the Roman> processor to jump to the specified node and get Roman> the value from there. I used a "normal" Roman> <xsl:value-of select="@ref"/> ,but the processor Roman> didn't interpret it as an XPath expression but as Roman> a string. Roman> Does anyone know a method to tell the processor Roman> to use a source document's attribute value as an Roman> XPath expression in the stylesheet? Roman> Best regards, Roman -- Best Regards, --raman ------------------------------------------------------------ T. V. Raman: PhD (Cornell University) IBM Research: Human Language Technologies Conversational And Multimodal WWW Standards Phone: 1 (408) 927 2608 Fax: 1 (408) 927 3012 Email: tvraman@us.ibm.com WWW: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman.asc Snail: IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road San Jose 95120
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