XPath and documents

[Serge Malonga]

Hello,

Very basic question about XPATH but I can find nowhere a comment about it.
- function document("filename") returns the tree node of the xml file
"filename".
- function document("") returns the current processing xsl file.
- Question : how do I get the input XML document ? "/" should work of
course, unless you are lost in a template transforming another
document("...").

Thanks in advance for your comments.

Sergiogio

 

[Andy Fish]

you do things like: (untested)

<xsl:value-of select="document('foo.xml')/foo/bar[2])"/>
or

<xsl:variable name="mydoc" select="document('foo.xml')"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$mydoc/foo/bar[2]"/>

Andy