Re: [xml] arguments to an XSLT transformation in Python

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 08:17:21PM +0200, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> This works, but I'd like to pass something else to the transformation 
> (and thus f()) than a string or the result of an xpath expression. What 
> I would to pass is an arbitrary Python object. While the XSLT 
> transformation itself cannot use it, I can pass it to my Python 
> extension function which then should be able to call methods on it.
>
> I can't get this to work though. When I pass in a python object what is 
> passed to f() is an empty list ([]). The only thing that seems to be 
> legal to pass is an xpath expression...

  Hum, yes I think only a string will go through there.

> Is something like what I want supported at all? If not, is there a 
> workaround? I need to be able to get to a context object that has 
> nothing to do with XSLT from my Python script. Is it possible to stuff 
> such a thing (before the transformation starts) on what gets passed as 
> ctx, perhaps?

  At the C level you can use the _private field of the context
to plug your own data. Maybe that could be added as a Python 
interface, but I doubt there is something which would work out of the
box right now ...

Daniel

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