Hi,

you should convert the spreadsheet into a xml document

    <descriptions>
        <description code="1">
            ...
        </description>
    </descriptions>

then you may reference this document from your stylesheet by setting
up a
variable

    <xsl:variable name="descr"
select="document('descriptions.xml')/descriptions"/>

and refer to the description for the current node by using

    <xsl:variable name="code" select="@code"/>
    <xsl:value-of select="$descr/description[@code=$code]"/>

hope this helps,

Carsten


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