Martin Honnen wrote:
> johkar wrote:
>
> > I would like to embed some XML within my XSL as either a param or a
> > global variable.  Is this possible?  If so, what is the syntax to
> > access it?
>
> You can embed XML data as a top level element (child of the
> xsl:stylesheet element) if the element is in a different namespace e.g.
>
> <xsl:stylesheet
>    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>    xmlns:data="http://example.com/2006/some-data"
>    version="1.0">
>
> <data:data>
>    <links xmlns="">
>      <link>Link 1</link>
>      <link>Link 2</link>
>    </links>
> </data:data>
>
> The XSLT stylesheet itself can be accessed with calling the document
> function with '' e.g.
>    document('')
> so you would get at that data with e.g.
>    document('')/xsl:stylesheet/data:data/links/link
> to access all the link elements.
>
>
> If you use xsl:param or xsl:variable and have contents in these elements
> then you have a result tree fragment as the parameter or variable value
> that you can later copy to the result tree with xsl:copy-of e.g.
>
> <xsl:call-template name="securetemplate">
> <xsl:with-param name="leftnav">
>     <links>
>        <link>Link 1</link>
>        <link>Link 2</link>
>     </links>
> </xsl:with-param>
> </xsl:call-template>
>
> <xsl:template name="securetemplate">
>    <xsl:param name="leftnav"/>
>    <xsl:copy-of select="$leftnav"/>
> </xsl:template>
>

One more question.  If data:data is on the main page, how can you
access it in an included xsl?

John