Passing parameters?

[UgmaDevelopment]

Hello!

Is there a way to pass parameters to the engine?

Here's an example that might clarify what I mean. Suppose you want to change the date in a file to the current date; using xsltransform.net, how could you pass that date in as a parameter?

Here's some XSL to illustrate my example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

    <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
    
    <!-- Here we declare the parameter that we expect to be passed in. -->
    <xsl:param name="currentDate"/>
    
    <!-- This block copies the whole thing (the input) into the output. -->
    <xsl:template match="node() | @*">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
  

    <!-- This block replaces the `date_created` attribute of the Message element with the current date. -->
    <xsl:template match="/Message/@date_created">
        <!-- The name attribute is required, so we just specify the same name as before. `name()` uses the same name the attribute had previously; we don't want to change the attribute name, just its value. -->
        <xsl:attribute name="{name()}"> 
            <xsl:value-of select="$currentDate"/>
        </xsl:attribute>
    </xsl:template>
    
    
</xsl:stylesheet>

Thank you for efforts in making your useful tool public.

[joepjoosten]

Hi Bradley,

It's indeed not possible to set parameters when the template is called. You could just set the value attribute in the parameter, which will act as a default value. You could pass a value via the XML input, and select that as the default value.

Hope this helps?