Dynamically add XML tags to be processed?

[bjam]

Hi, I am trying to create a sort of include file into my xsl files such
that calling the following template will push these xml tags into my
document such that the other xsl files can use these tags to make
decisions. In this case I want antother template that is going to
create tables be able to call this template in order to get information
for the various table paramaters and then use xsl:attribute to push
items into the table tag. Does anyone know if there is a way to
dynamically create xml tags using xsl in the document such that the
rest of the xsl style sheet processing can use these tags? Below is
the template file I am looking to create ... and further below is it's
usuage.

<!-- please note this is experimental -->
<xsl:styleshe et version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http ://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<!-- import the data output template for displaying each row of resutls
-->

<!-- table settings -->
<!-- border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="lightb lue"
width="50%"-->
<xsl:template name="summary_t able_specs">
<xml_summary_ta ble cellpadding='2'/>
<xml_summary_ta ble cellspacing='6'/>
<xml_summary_ta ble border='3'/>
<xml_summary_ta ble width='100%'/>
<xml_summary_ta ble bgcolor='lightb lue'/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

......... usage below

<xsl:import="su mmary_table.xsl ">
<xsl:call-template name="summary_t able_specs"/>
<table>
<xsl:attribut e href="cellpaddi ng">
<xsl:value-of select="/xml_summary_tab le[@cellpadding][text()]"/>
</xsl:attribute>

.....

[David Carlisle]

"bjam" <bs****@yahoo.c om> writes:

Hi, I am trying to create a sort of include file into my xsl files such
that calling the following template will push these xml tags into my
document
It's hard to follow what you mean here. XSLT doesn't have any access to
tags in the source files, it just has access to a node tree generated by
an XML parser which has processed (and discarded) the tags.
such that the other xsl files can use these tags to make
decisions. In this case I want antother template that is going to
create tables be able to call this template in order to get information
for the various table paramaters and then use xsl:attribute to push
items into the table tag. Does anyone know if there is a way to
dynamically create xml tags using xsl in the document such that the
rest of the xsl style sheet processing can use these tags? Below is
the template file I am looking to create ... and further below is it's
usuage.
<!-- please note this is experimental -->
<xsl:styleshe et version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http ://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<!-- import the data output template for displaying each row of resutls
-->

<!-- table settings -->
<!-- border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="lightb lue"
width="50%"-->
<xsl:template name="summary_t able_specs">
<xml_summary_ta ble cellpadding='2'/>
<xml_summary_ta ble cellspacing='6'/>
<xml_summary_ta ble border='3'/>
<xml_summary_ta ble width='100%'/>
<xml_summary_ta ble bgcolor='lightb lue'/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

........ usage below

<xsl:import="su mmary_table.xsl ">
<xsl:call-template name="summary_t able_specs"/>
<table>
<xsl:attribut e href="cellpaddi ng">
<xsl:value-of select="/xml_summary_tab le[@cellpadding][text()]"/>
</xsl:attribute>

....

Looking at the example then perhaps what you want to do is put the
following in to a file table.xml alongside your stylesheet
<foo>
<summary_tabl e cellpadding='2'/>
<summary_tabl e cellspacing='6'/>
<summary_tabl e border='3'/>
<summary_tabl e width='100%'/>
<summary_tabl e bgcolor='lightb lue'/>
</foo>
Note that you shouldn't (or with some parsers can not) use an element
name xml_summary_tab le as all names starting with xml (or XML) are
reserved.

Then you can do

<table>
<xsl:copy-of select="documen t('table.xml')/summary_table/@cellpadding"/>
Or depending what you want to do, perhaps you don't want this lookup
table at all and want to use an attribute set
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#attribute-sets

David