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xdmp.xsltInvoke

xdmp.xsltInvoke(
   path as String,
   [input as Node?],
   [params as Object?],
   [options as Object?]
) as Sequence

Summary

Executes an XSLT stylesheet against a node.

Parameters
path The path of the stylesheet to be executed. The path is resolved against the root of the App Server evaluating the query, the Modules directory, or relative to the calling module. For details on resolving paths, see "Importing XQuery Modules and Resolving Paths" in the Application Developer's Guide.
input The context node to which the stylesheet is applied.
params The stylesheet parameter values for this evaluation. Each key in the map is a string representing the name of the parameter in Clark notation: "{namespaceURI}localname". The function xdmp.keyFromQName is a convenient way to generate these keys. Each entry in the map is the value of the corresponding parameter.
options The options object. The default value is null. Additional options include:

mode

A QName (in clark notation) specifying the initial stylesheet mode to use (the <xsl:template> with the specified mode attribute).

template

A QName (in clark notation) specifying the name of the initial template to apply.

encoding

Specifies the encoding to use when reading the stylesheet into MarkLogic Server. The value must either be "auto" or match an encoding name according to the Unicode Charset Alias Matching rules (http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr22/#Charset_Alias_Matching). When the value is "auto", MarkLogic guesses the encoding from the document content. For a list of character set encodings by language, see Collations and Character Sets By Language in the Search Developer's Guide. If you do not set this option, MarkLogic uses the encoding specified in the HTTP headers, if present. If you do not set this option and no encoding is available from HTTP headers, the encoding defaults to UTF-8. For more details, see Character Encoding in the Search Developer's Guide.

Required Privileges

http://marklogic.com/xdmp/privileges/xslt-invoke

Usage Notes

When running an XSLT stylesheet in MarkLogic, you pass in a node on which the stylesheet operates. Many stylesheets are written to expect the initial node to be a document node. In other XSLT processors, the node you pass to the stylesheet is typically read in from the filesystem and is always treated as a document node. In MarkLogic, you often get the node to pass to the stylesheet as the result of a query or a search, and the node is not necessarily a document node. Therefore, if your stylesheet expects the context node to be a document node, make sure to pass in a document node and not an element node. If you pass in an element node to a stylesheet that has default template rules to expect a document node, then you might miss the processing on the element you passed in (because the stylesheet might expect the child node to be the root element of the XML document, but if you passed in the root element instead of its parent document node, then the child nodes would be the children of the root element, causing the root element to miss its default processing).

Example


// This example requires a document named hello.xsl directly
// at the App Server root with the following content:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                  version="2.0">
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:text>hello</xsl:text>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

fn.head(xdmp.xsltInvoke("/hello.xsl", xdmp.unquote('<foo/>')))
=>
hello

Example

//  Hello World example for xslt:invoke, with a parameter.
//  Assumes a stylesheet named params.xsl directly at
//  the App Server root with the following content:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
      xmlns:f="foo" xmlns:b="bar"
      version="2.0">
    <xsl:param name="f:pName"/>
    <xsl:param name="b:bName"/>
    <xsl:param name="cName"/>
    <xsl:param name="greeting" select="'Hi there '"/>
    <xsl:template match="/">
       <output>
         <xsl:copy-of select="node"/>
         <greeting><xsl:value-of select="$greeting"/></greeting>
         <param><xsl:value-of select="$f:pName"/></param>
         <param><xsl:value-of select="$b:bName"/></param>
         <param><xsl:value-of select="$cName"/></param>
       </output>
    </xsl:template>
  </xsl:stylesheet>

// Run this against the above stylesheet:

var params = new Object();
var key1 = xdmp.keyFromQName(fn.QName("foo", "pName"));
params[key1] = "Stephen";
var key2 = xdmp.keyFromQName(fn.QName("bar", "bName"));
params[key2] = "Ron";
params.cName = "Dave";
xdmp.xsltInvoke("/params.xsl",
    fn.head(xdmp.unquote('<node>Hello World</node>')),
    params);

=>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ASCII"?>
<output xmlns:f="foo" xmlns:b="bar">
  <node>Hello World</node>
  <greeting>Hi there </greeting>
  <param>Stephen</param>
  <param>Ron</param>
  <param>Dave</param>
</output>

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