Using xquery in a xslt stylesheet
Thursday, 7 March 2013 · 1 message
RM
Raymond Meester7 Mar 2013 16:18 #
I thought I share this one, just in case someone needs to call BaseX (xquery the database in this example) from xslt:
Greets,
Raymond
Example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" exclude-result-prefixes="xsl basex"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:basex="java:org.basex.server.ClientSession">
<!-- create a new ClientSession object (only static methods can be
called directly) -->
<xsl:variable name="session" select="basex:new('localhost', 1984,
'admin','admin')"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<!-- putting the xquery in a variable makes it easier to work with
quotes or xpath results from the input xml -->
<xsl:variable name="query"><xsl:text>XQUERY for $doc in
db:open("SampleDB") return $doc</xsl:text></xsl:variable>
<example>
<!-- execute the query with a BaseX command -->
<xsl:value-of
select="basex:execute($session,string($query))"/>
</example>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>Written for BaseX 7.6. BaseX may have changed since: please check the current documentation.
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