Thanks for the quick replies,

The reason why I wanted to pass in a array is because I want to select a specific data from the XML file.

<Data>
	<Foo name="Foo1">
		<bar name="bar1">stuff</bar>
		<bar name="bar2">stuff</bar>
	</Foo>
	<Foo name="Foo2">
		<bar name="bar1">stuff</bar>
		<bar name="bar2">stuff</bar>
	</Foo>
	<Foo name="Foo3">
		<bar name="bar1">stuff</bar>
		<bar name="bar2">stuff</bar>
	</Foo>
</Data>

I then want to be able to specify what I select from the XML document. I.e I may only want the following data
	Foo1("bar1")
	Foo3("bar1", "bar2")

I hope the above makes sense.

Thanks once again for the advice.

Cheers
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 21 April 2004 14:27
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Passing arrays as parameters


  
   A slightly less expensive way to do this is to pass the array in as a
   string of XML-like data and then serialize it into a node-set using the
   node-set function particular to your processor.  Then you can process it
   just like any other node-set.

   Best of luck!

   <M:D/>


If you passed in a string with XML syntax you'd want a parse extension
function not a node-set() (ie the opposite of serialization) Saxon for
example offers such a function.

On the other hand, if called from an API ratherthan from a command line,
most XSLT engines will allow you to pass in a node set as a parameter so
no extension function should be needed.

David

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