> 
> Many thanks for the replies so far. I'm now progressing to 
> look at the mapping file or "high-level description of a 
> stereotyped transformation", and was wondering whether I 
> could use xpath statements in this file to identify data I 
> want to extract from particular elements/attributes, or 
> identify even the elements themselves.
> 
> The question that subsequently arises when creating a mapping 
> file as such
> is: Can one pass xpath statements as variables into 
> templates, and then act on them (against the source document)?

No you can't (except with extensions such as xx:evaluate()); but if you
are generating a stylesheet from your configuratoin file, rather than
interpreting it, this isn't a problem.

Michael Kay

> 
> Thanks,
> Alistair - alistair.power@xxxxxxxxx
> -----Original Message-----
> It sounds to me as if you should treat your "configuration 
> file" as a high-level description of a stereotyped 
> transformation, and use it to generate a specific XSLT 
> stylesheet for a particular transformation. You can do this 
> stylesheet generation in XSLT, of course.
> 
> Michael Kay
> Software AG
> home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
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