reading parameters from URL to XSLT

[Pablo Gomes Ludermir]

Hey guys,

I have a simple XML document that I want to put on my website (no
server side programming whatsoever). This xml is rendered using a xslt
document which needs to read some parameter from the URL in order to
know which data from the XML document to show.
It would be something like:

http://www.myserver.com/mydocument.xml?myParam=ABC

I have inserted the param tag (<xsl:param name="myParam"/>), but if I
try to open from the browser it does not work. I am using both IE6 and
Firefox 1.0.

Regards,
Pablo

[Martin Honnen]

Pablo Gomes Ludermir wrote:

I have a simple XML document that I want to put on my website (no
server side programming whatsoever). This xml is rendered using a xslt
document which needs to read some parameter from the URL in order to
know which data from the XML document to show.
It would be something like:

http://www.myserver.com/mydocument.xml?myParam=ABC

I have inserted the param tag (<xsl:param name="myParam"/>), but if I
try to open from the browser it does not work. I am using both IE6 and
Firefox 1.0.

You would need to put a HTML page on your server that then scripts the
transformation, when you script a transformation you can pass in parameters.
There is no way to read out the query string when the browser does the
transformation automatically.
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Martin Honnen
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