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When using a browser to transform XML (Google Chrome or IE7) is it possible to pass a parameter to the XSLT stylesheet through the URL?
example:
data.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="sample.xsl"?>
<root>
<document type="resume">
<author>John Doe</author>
</document>
<document type="novella">
<author>Jane Doe</author>
</document>
</root>
sample.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
<xsl:output method="html" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:param name="doctype" />
<html>
<head>
<title>List of <xsl:value-of select="$doctype" /></title>
</head>
<body>
<xsl:for-each select="//document[@type = $doctype]">
<p><xsl:value-of select="author" /></p>
</xsl:for-each>
</body>
</html>
</<xsl:stylesheet>
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Use the transformNode() method to apply the XSL style sheet to the xml document. Set the body of the current document (id="example") to contain the styled xml document.
The short answer is "No, use one of the diverse set of browsers out there". The reason this doesn't work is due to a security concern that Chrome has addressed in a controversial way, by blocking XML files from accessing local XSLT files in the same directory, while HTML files can access .
XSLT is used to transform XML document from one form to another form. XSLT uses Xpath to perform matching of nodes to perform these transformation . The result of applying XSLT to XML document could be an another XML document, HTML, text or any another document from technology perspective.
Answer. In order to pass multiple parameters to XSLT from BP you'll need to pass '=' as a separator.
Unfortunately, no - you can't pass through parameters to the XSLT on the client-side only. The web-browser takes the processing instructions from the XML; and directly transforms it with the XSLT.
It is possible to pass values via the querystring URL and then read them dynamically using JavaScript. However these wouldn't be available to use in the XSLT (XPath expressions) - as the browser has already transformed the XML/XSLT. They could only be used in the rendered HTML output.
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