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Re: Loading an external file of index
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- Subject: Re: Loading an external file of index
- From: Claudio Sacerdoti Coen <sacerdot at students dot cs dot unibo dot it>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:51:42 +0200
- References: <007901bfe070$ad850c40$5df5c13f@PaulTchistopolskii>
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:48:33 -0700, Paul Tchistopolskii wrote:
> > > I would prefer this requirement to be got rid of in the XSLT spec.
> > > Instead, I would put a special PI (or something similar) telling the
> > > XSLT processor that the document retrieved is ever the same.
>
> Ah - I forgot to write... Of course there is no need in any PI's - just
>
> <xsl:variable name="loaded-doc" select="document( 'some-uri-here')"/>
>
> And then re-use $loaded-doc when you need it.
This is not possible in XSLT because $loaded-doc is not a document
fragment, but only a node set. So I can't, for example, write
<xsl:value-of select="$loaded-doc/*[1]"/>
For this reason I suggested the PI.
Regards,
C.S.C.
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