Loading an external file of index

[Pierre Attar <patt at tireme dot fr>]

Hi,

I have a lot fo files that are using a shared common index for managing 
references. Something like :

1)  lot of files with contents like :

<xmlfile><p>Here I want to define the <keyref linkend="xml"/> 
standard</p></xmlfile>

2) an other file called shared.xml with :

<keysbase>
         <key name="xml"><acronym>xml</acronym><title>eXtended Markup 
Language</title></key>
         <key name="xsl"><acronym>xsl</acronym><title>eXtended Style Sheet 
Language</title></key>
</keysbase>


What I want to do is, while formatting my xml files to HTML, is to load 
first the shared.xml file for getting as a set of keys in order to be able 
to use it for formatting all files.

In XSL T, it is something like :

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
         <xsl:output method="html" indent="no"/>

         <xsl:template match="/">
                 <xsl:apply-templates 
select="document('../shared/shared.xml')"/>
                 <xsl:apply-templates/>
         </xsl:template>

         ....

         <xsl:template match="keyref">
                 <b><xsl:value-of 
select="key('mysetofkeys',@name)/ACRONYM"/></b>
         </xsl:template>

         ....

</xsl:stylesheet >

My problem is that the standard says that the <xsl:key> declaration needs 
to be at the top root node level of a stylesheet and that at this time, the 
key elements coming from the imported file are unknown.

So, the question is where do I declare  <xsl:key name="mysetofkeys" 
match="key" use="@name"/> for being able to fill the table with all keys 
from the imported file ?

Regards,

Pierre

PS : By the way, an other subconsequent question is how is it possible, for 
debugging purpose, to output the content of a key table ? Something like 
print(key("mysetofkeys')) ... ?


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