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How to use an XML-based LUT with XSLT?
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- Subject: [xsl] How to use an XML-based LUT with XSLT?
- From: Xavier Defrang <xavier at perceval dot net>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 16:49:51 +0200 (CEST)
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Hello folks,
I've written a XSL document to transform XML into XHTML (yes, that's a big
surprize!). The document contains some error codes and I'd like to
transform these numerical codes into an actual human-readable message so I
built a small XML document as follow :
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<Table>
<Message Code="...">User-friendly error message</Message>
...
</Table>
Now I'd like to change my XSLT so I could look-up into the Table to
substitute numerical error codes by text messages with something like :
<xsl:value-of select="/Table/Message[@Code=ActualErrorCode]"/>
Now the question is how do I "link" this table to my input DOM so I can
reach the Message elements from within my XSLT? Is there any possibility
to that with plain XSLT? (I don't want to use any engine-dependant
extensions)
Maybe should I make a <xsl:choose>-based template matching the elements
containing these codes?
Thanks in advance,
Xavier Defrang
Perceval R&D Team
xavier@perceval.net
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