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January 6, 2002 - Adding a Signature to an XML File

Yehuda Shiran January 6, 2002
Instantiating An Additional XML File
Tips: January 2002

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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The XSL format allows you to add an external XML file and insert it wherever you want in the original XML file. The external XML file should begin with the <document> tag and end with the </document> tag. Suppose you want to add the accountant signature at the bottom of a financial table. Your accountant signature is needed in many other documents, so you keep it in a separate XML file:

<document>
   <preparedby>Thomson Accountants, LLC</preparedby>
   <accountantaddress>300 5th Ave., New York, NY 10003, USA</accountantaddress>
</document>
In the main XML file, you need to define a variable that will point to the new XML file:

<xsl:variable name="accountantinfo" select="document('020106b.xml')"/>
And at the end of the file, you need to include the new XML file: 
<div>
  <xsl:value-of select="$accountantinfo//preparedby"/><BR></BR>
  <xsl:value-of select="$accountantinfo//accountantaddress"/>
</div>
Notice how you can select particular data tags from the external XML file. Try it now. Here is the main XML file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="020106a.xsl"?>
  <sales>
    <summary>
      <heading>MyDVD Rental Store</heading>
      <subhead>Periodical Sales Report</subhead>
      <description>Sales Report for January, February, and March of 2001</description>
    </summary>
	<data>
      <month>
        <name>January 2001</name>
        <week number="1" dvds_rented="12000" />
        <week number="2" dvds_rented="15000" />
        <week number="3" dvds_rented="18000" />
        <week number="4" dvds_rented="11800" />		  
      </month>
      <month>
        <name>February 2001</name>
        <week number="1" dvds_rented="11500" />
        <week number="2" dvds_rented="12390" />
        <week number="3" dvds_rented="19050" />
        <week number="4" dvds_rented="11200" />		  
      </month>
      <month>
        <name>March 2001</name>
        <week number="1" dvds_rented="15300" />
        <week number="2" dvds_rented="12390" />
        <week number="3" dvds_rented="10050" />
        <week number="4" dvds_rented="11230" />		  
      </month>
    </data>
  </sales>
And here is the complete XSL file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="https://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:param name="forecast" select="50000"/>
<xsl:variable name="accountantinfo" select="document('020106b.xml')"/>
<xsl:param name="weekly_quota" select="12000"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE><xsl:value-of select="//summary/heading"/></TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1><xsl:value-of select="//summary/heading"/></H1>
<H2><xsl:value-of select="//summary/subhead"/></H2>
<P><xsl:value-of select="//summary/description"/></P>
<TABLE>
<TR>
<TH>Month\Week</TH>
<xsl:for-each select="//data/month[1]/week">
<TH>W<xsl:value-of select="@number"/></TH>
</xsl:for-each>
<TH>Total</TH>
<TH>Forecast</TH>
</TR>
<xsl:for-each select="//data/month">
  <tr>
    <th style="text-align:left"><xsl:value-of select="name"/></th>
    <xsl:for-each select="week">
       <td>
         <xsl:attribute name="style">
           <xsl:choose>
             <xsl:when test="number(@dvds_rented <= $weekly_quota)">color:red;</xsl:when>
             <xsl:otherwise>color:green;</xsl:otherwise>
           </xsl:choose>
           text-align:right;
         </xsl:attribute>
         <xsl:value-of select="format-number(@dvds_rented, '###,###')"/> 
      </td>
    </xsl:for-each>
    <td style="text-align:right;font-weight:bold">
      <xsl:value-of select="format-number(sum(week/@dvds_rented), '###,###')"/>
    </td>
    <td style="text-align:right;font-weight:bold">
      <xsl:value-of select="format-number($forecast, '###,###')"/>
    </td>
  </tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</TABLE>
<div>
  <xsl:value-of select="$accountantinfo//preparedby"/><BR></BR>
  <xsl:value-of select="$accountantinfo//accountantaddress"/>
</div>    
</BODY>
</HTML>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>