Xalan-J : URL stroke parsing into xsl

[Albert Tsun <al...@excel.com.hk>]

Hi all,

I'm using XALAN-J and try to pass a directory path in URL form as a
parameter into a stylesheet and
use <xalan:write> to get multiple output files.

stylesheet :

<xsl:param name="outputpath" select="'file:/d:/'"/>
<xsl:param name="gendate" select="'20001231'"/>

<xsl:template match="SetReport2:Header">
    <xsl:variable name="file"
select="concat($outputpath",'header_',$gendate,'.xml')"/>
    <xsl:value-of select="$outputpath" />
    <redirect:write select="$file">
        <xsl:call-template name="print-header">
            <xsl:with-param name="pageno" select="###"/>
        </xsl:call-template>
    </redirect:write>
</xsl:template>

but when I try to pass "file:/d:/SETProject/output/" as outputpath
parameter into the stylesheet,
the xalan XSLT transformer prompt me with errors.

Error :

XSL Error: pattern = 'file:/d:/SETProject/output/'
Extra illegal tokens: 'd', ':', '/', 'SETProject', '/', 'output', '/',
style tree node: org.apache.xalan.xslt.StylesheetRoot@30633a
XSL Error: SAX Exception
Error : pattern = 'file:/d:/SETProject/output/'
Extra illegal tokens: 'd', ':', '/', 'SETProject', '/', 'output', '/'
org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLProcessorException: pattern =
'file:/d:/SETProject/output/'
Extra illegal tokens: 'd', ':', '/', 'SETProject', '/', 'output', '/'
     at
org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTEngineImpl.error(XSLTEngineImpl.java:1674)
     at
org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTEngineImpl.error(XSLTEngineImpl.java:1638)
     at
org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLTEngineImpl.process(XSLTEngineImpl.java:671)


Would some please kindly give me some hint how to solve it.

Many Thanks in advance.

Re: Xalan-J : URL stroke parsing into xsl

[Gary L Peskin <ga...@firstech.com>]

Albert Tsun wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm using XALAN-J and try to pass a directory path in URL form as a
> parameter into a stylesheet and
> use <xalan:write> to get multiple output files.
> ...
> but when I try to pass "file:/d:/SETProject/output/" as outputpath
> parameter into the stylesheet,
> the xalan XSLT transformer prompt me with errors.
> 
> Error :
> 
> XSL Error: pattern = 'file:/d:/SETProject/output/'

Place the value of your outputpath parameter in quotes or apostrophes. 
The method is expecting an XPath expression and it thinks your filename
is some sort of LocationPath.

Gary