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Re: How to use an XML-based LUT with XSLT?
- To: xavier at perceval dot net
- Subject: [xsl] Re: How to use an XML-based LUT with XSLT?
- From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:26:15 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Xavier Defrang <xavier at perceval dot net> wrote:
> 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 :
[snip]
> 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)
Xavier,
For an example of key-based access into a lookup table see:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/xsl-list/2001-06/msg01004.html
Hope this helped.
Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.
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