Thanks, Ken.  That works perfectly.  And, I filled in some gaps in my
knowledge of XSLT theory by learning about attribute value templates.

-James


-----Original Message-----
From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 11:29 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  defining output document type by stylesheet
parameters

At 2008-02-18 11:04 -0600, James Sulak wrote:
>In XSLT 2.0, is it possible to define the output document type by
>stylesheet parameters?

Yes, not with <xsl:output> but with <xsl:result-document> ... most of
the attributes of <xsl:result-document> are attribute value
templates, where none of the <xsl:output> ones are.

>...
>I know this type of thing wasn't possible in 1.0, but it seems like it
>might be in 2.0.  Is there another approach I should be using, or am I
>out of luck?  I'm using Saxon 9B.

I hope the example below helps.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken

X:\samp>type resultdoc.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                 version="2.0">

<xsl:output indent="yes"/>

<xsl:variable name="test">test.ent</xsl:variable>

<xsl:template match="/">
   <xsl:result-document doctype-system="{$test}">
     <hello/>
   </xsl:result-document>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
X:\samp>xslt2 resultdoc.xsl resultdoc.xsl t:\j.xml

X:\samp>type t:\j.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hello
   SYSTEM "test.ent">
<hello/>
X:\samp>



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