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Advanced XSL Concepts Transforming External Data Sources

Vinit Varghese

Development Manager, OmniUpdate

Agenda

OU Campus Page Templates & PCF xsl:doc xsl:unparsed-text Injecting Parameters What’s new in XSL 3.0 Use Case Q&A

New Page Components

Template Structure

.TCF

.TMPL

.PCF

.XML

XSL

.XML .TMPL .TMPL .INC .INC

XSL XSL

EXtensible Stylesheet Language(XSL)

.PCF XSL

xsl:doc

doc(href) <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:copy-of select=”doc(‘http://example.com/sample.xml’)”/> </xsl:template> Attribute – href(mandatory): The URI used to locate the document to be loaded and has to be valid XML.

xsl:unparsed-text

unparsed-text(href) <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:copy-of select=”unparsed-text(‘http://example.com/sample.csv’)”/> </xsl:template> Attribute – href(mandatory): The URI used to locate the document to be loaded.

..more

• doc-available()- a way to avoid the errors returned

by the fn:doc function if a document is not available.

• unparsed-text-available()- checks if an an external

resource (for example, a file) is available

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Q&A

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