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class="paramdef">in <span class="parameter">entity</span> any</span>); </div> <div class="refsect1"> <div class="refsect1title">Description</div> <p> This function takes a name and the root element of a parsed XML document and defines these as a stylesheet. The unique element child of the entity object's document should be an xsl:stylesheet element. Included or imported stylesheets will be located relative to the base URI of the entity passed to <span class="computeroutput">xslt_sheet()</span>. Once a stylesheet thus defined it can be used as the stylesheet argument of xslt. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <div class="refsect1title">Parameters</div> <div class="refsect2"> <span class="refsect2title">uri – </span> The location of the XSLT style sheet</div> <div class="refsect2"> <span class="refsect2title">entity – </span> A valid XSL style sheet, XML entity parsed using the <span class="computeroutput">xml_tree_doc()</span> function</div> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <div class="refsect1title">Examples</div> <a name="ex_xslt_sheet" /> <div class="example"> <div class="exampletitle">Preparing a Style Sheet from the File System</div> <p> The <span class="computeroutput">xslt_view()</span> function first defines the style sheet from a file. The <span class="computeroutput">xslt_sheet()</span> function is called with the name and the root element of the parsed file. <span class="computeroutput">xslt_view()</span> next gets the string to process, parses the string as XML and converts the parse tree into an entity object. This is then passed to the <span class="computeroutput">xslt()</span> function. The result is another entity object. This is finally serialized as XML text and written into the file <span class="computeroutput">xslt.out</span>. </p> <div> <pre class="programlisting"> create procedure xslt_view (in v varchar, in xst varchar) { declare str, r varchar; xslt_sheet (xst, xml_tree_doc (xml_tree (file_to_string (xst)))); str := xml_view_string (v); r := xslt (xst, xml_tree_doc (xml_tree (str))); declare str any; str := string_output (); http_value (r, 0, str); string_to_file ('xslt.out', string_output_string (str), 0); } </pre> </div> </div> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <div class="refsect1title">See Also</div> <p> <a href="fn_xml_tree_doc.html">xml_tree_doc()</a> </p> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div>Copyright© 1999 - 2009 OpenLink Software All rights reserved.</div> <div id="validation"> <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer"> <img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0!" height="31" width="88" /> </a> <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/"> <img src="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss" alt="Valid CSS!" height="31" width="88" /> </a> </div> </div> </body> </html>