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Re: XPOINTER to HTML by XSL
- From: "NILESH PATEL" <jayganesh786 at hotmail dot com>
- To: jeni at jenitennison dot com
- Cc: XSL-List at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 12:32:48 +0000
- Subject: Re: [xsl] XPOINTER to HTML by XSL
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Thanks jeni,
I tried this way but transformation fails with exception. I don't know why.
Could you please try with xalan and see if it works for you.
Thanks, I will keep trying too.
Nilesh
>From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
>Reply-To: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
>To: "NILESH PATEL" <jayganesh786@hotmail.com>
>CC: XSL-List@lists.mulberrytech.com
>Subject: Re: [xsl] XPOINTER to HTML by XSL
>Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:31:27 +0000
>
>Hi Nilesh,
>
> > I have created a small "test_pointer.xml" file and used xpointer in
> > there, pointing at "attachment.xml", as below.
>
>As far as I know, Xalan doesn't yet support XPointer when using the
>document() function. In fact, I don't know of any XSLT processor that
>does support XPointer (libxslt and 4XSLT might do, since libxml has an
>XPointer implementation and 4Suite has 4XPointer, but I couldn't get
>them to work). I did also find:
>
> - http://www.cs.unibo.it/projects/xslt%2B%2B/
>
>which might be interesting to you.
>
>If you're just dealing with XPointers that look like XPaths, you could
>try splitting value of the href attribute and using Xalan's evaluate()
>extension function on the pointer. Something like:
>
> <xsl:for-each select="document(substring-before(@href, '#'))">
> <xsl:variable name="path"
> select="substring-before(substring-after(@href, '#xpointer('),
> ')')" />
> <xsl:value-of select="xalan:evaluate($path)" />
> </xsl:for-each>
>
>Hopefully once XPointer reaches Recommendation, more processors will
>start to support it.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Jeni
>
>---
>Jeni Tennison
>http://www.jenitennison.com/
>
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