Editing Of Xsl Using Javascript

[Almeida]

Hi,I have a local XML-File with content that looks like that

<Data>	<Timestamp>30.10.2009 13:14:25</Timestamp>	<LogLevel>Developer</LogLevel>	<Component>TestComponent</Component>	<Log />	<Message>Test</Message>	<Source>TestFunction()</Source>  </Data>

and i have a XSL-File which creates an table as HTML code to display the data properly.I also have a Javascript which reads the Components from the XML and generates an dropdown-menu with all of the components as entries.Now, I want to edit the XSL file on the fly, depending on which component I selected from my dropdown und reuse that XSL on my XML, so that only the selected Components are displayed.Any idea, how I can do this?I thought of taking a string with the XSL text in it and edit this as I wish. But how can I then use this string as my XSL?Or is there an easier way of achieving my goal?Any help is appreciated!Thanks, Almeida

[Martin Honnen]

I don't think you need to edit the XSLT stylesheet, instead you can simply define a global parameter in the stylesheet and set that with the API of your XSLT processor before you run the transformation:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"><xsl:param name="p1" select="''"/><xsl:template match="/">  <xsl:apply-templates select="root/foo[$p1 = '' or $p1 = bar]"/></xsl:template>...</xsl:stylesheet>

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_the_...Transformations on how to set parameters before running a transformation with Mozilla (and Opera and Safari as they expose the same API).

[Almeida]

Hey,thanks for your reply!Can I also use this with Internet Explorer? My solution has to work with IE.And how would I have to adapt your code to my script?Thanks in advance!

[Martin Honnen]

IE uses MSXML for XML parsing and XSLT transformation. The MSXML API is documented here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms763742(VS.85).aspxYou will need to use the method AddParameter: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-/library/ms762312(VS.85).aspxAs for adapting the code to your needs, please show us the XSLT you have currently that outputs the complete data. And I suspect your XML is also not complete, at least from that single 'Data' element I am not sure what you want to filter. Do you get the 'Component' element contents from that drop drown list?