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Re: node-set() function in MSXML?
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- Subject: Re: node-set() function in MSXML?
- From: "Steve Muench" <smuench at us dot oracle dot com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:53:09 -0700
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| If MSXML complied with the standard, I would be able to write a
| stylesheet that uses fallbacks to invoke the appropriate node-set() function
| based on which processor was being used. But since MSXML is not compliant,
| I can't write a stylesheet that will work for it and for a compliant
| processor. At least that's my understanding at this point.
Not the most elegant in the world, but this stylesheet
is a tweaked example of my earlier one that works on
both MSXSL3 and OracleXSL. Similar strategy could be
used for adding compatibility with other engines like
Saxon, XT, Xalan, etc.
<test xsl:version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:ora="http://www.oracle.com/XSL/Transform/java/"
xsl:exclude-result-prefixes="ora">
<xsl:variable name="x">
<a>
<b>one</b>
<b>two</b>
</a>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="vendor" select="system-property('xsl:vendor')"/>
<xsl:choose>
<!-- Let MSXSL3 coerce RTF in $x to nodeset -->
<xsl:when test="contains($vendor,'Microsoft')">
<xsl:for-each select="$x/a/b">
<c><xsl:value-of select="."/></c>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:when>
<!-- Use built-in ora:node-set() extension function -->
<xsl:when test="contains($vendor,'Oracle')">
<xsl:for-each select="ora:node-set($x)/a/b">
<c><xsl:value-of select="."/></c>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</test>
______________________________________________________________
Steve Muench, Lead XML Evangelist & Consulting Product Manager
BC4J & XSQL Servlet Development Teams, Oracle Rep to XSL WG
Author "Building Oracle XML Applications", O'Reilly
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orxmlapp/
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