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RE: Key/Use


If you find yourself running into these kind of XSL barriers a lot,
something to consider doing is to have a stylesheet that generates the
actual stylesheet used to process the data. You processing becomes a
two-step process but it might be what you need.

-Patrick Moore-

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>From: Kevin_Gutch@mapinfo.com [mailto:Kevin_Gutch@mapinfo.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 11:54 AM
>To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>Subject: Re: [xsl] Key/Use
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>Yes. I guess that is what I will need to do. I just do not 
>like hard-coding
>it that way. Anytime I add country I will have to edit the 
>file. Oh well.
>I'll use it until I can get something better. I am still a little new.
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>The problem was originally described as:
>><xsl:key name="lookup" match="row"
>>  use="concat($TRANSFORMER_SourceCountry,'_layer_name')"/>
>where the variable specifies a country code. After some discussion,
>it came down to:
>>So I guess I can not have a dynamic lookup table?
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>Not that way, but you could define several keys, then dynamically
>pick which key:
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><xsl:key name="US_lookup" match="row" use="US_layer_name"/>
><xsl:key name="ES_lookup" match="row" use="ES_layer_name"/>
><xsl:key name="CN_lookup" match="row" use="CN_layer_name"/>
><xsl:key name="BG_lookup" match="row" use="BG_layer_name"/>
>then
>...select=key(concat($country,'_lookup'),$value)...
>Hope that helps!
>.................David Marston
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