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DCR content that contains references to content in other DCRs

JessicaD

TS/SP672
LS31
Windows 2003

Hello,
I have several thousand DCRs and most of them contain references to single-sourced DCRs called ContentSnippets. This is an example of the code that's inserted into the parent DCR when a single-sourced item is selected:


<snippet class="sniplink" name="SNIP/eSource/ESRx10094" dcrpath="/default/main/Ceridian/Enterprise/HR_and_Payroll/Signature_Payroll_Software/WORKAREA/KBContent/templatedata/WebKBdocs/ContentSnippet/data/eSource/ESRx10094" htmlpath="Y:/default/main/Ceridian/Enterprise/HR_and_Payroll/Signature_Payroll_Software/WORKAREA/KBContent/preview_files/SNIP/eSource/ESRx10094.html">Snippet Link ESRx10094</snippet>

I've been able to create a component that displays all of the content in the parent DCRs correctly, but the ContentSnippets are only showing the link reference:

Snippet Link ESRx10094

I tried using the Perl in our existing PTs in my component to process the single-sourced pieces, but it's not working (I'm probably not referenceing it correctly, but I can't find anything on Google or DevNet about calling a Perl module from an XSL file).

Does anyone know how to use XSL to pull the content from the DCR referred to in the dcrpath in the code or maybe even use the existing Perl via XSL to process the ContentSnippets before they're displayed? I looked into using include, but it looks like it will only work for style sheets. The other big problem is that I don't know Java.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!!

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vpatel

Please look at the "document" feature in XSL. You could do something like this in your XSL: <xsl:apply-templates select="document('path/to/your/referenced/dcr.xml')"/> Exact path TBD by you based on your requirements.

JessicaD

Thanks! I'll give that a try.

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JessicaD

Hi,

I was able to capture the dcrpath attribute in a variable and then pass that to the document function, but I'm getting an error in IE that says the XML page cannot be displayed. Since I'm trying to insert content from one set of DCRs into another set of DCRs, how do I know the filepath I'm using is correct for this reference? Does anyone know if it has to be a full path (i.e., /default/main/etc...) or are the paths relative and if they are, where am I starting from - the component directory or the templatedata directory?

Samir_Friend

I think you need to get the child DCR content inside the parent content XML rather than reading the child DCR content directly in the appearance XSL at runtime.

For doing this, you'll have to parse your parent DCR XML, get out the child XML reference paths, load that child XML content into the parent one and reconstruct your parent XML, all through an external Java class. The resultant will be your component's content XML which you can easily reference in your appearance XSL.

HTH.

JessicaD

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I don't know the first thing about Java.

While working with an external test file, I was able to get the document() reference to work, but all my files (xsl, parent xml, and referenced xml) had to be in the same directory for it to work. Does anyone know if the document function requires that all files are in one directory, or can it use files in other directories?

Thanks for the help!

vpatel

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I don't know the first thing about Java.

While working with an external test file, I was able to get the document() reference to work, but all my files (xsl, parent xml, and referenced xml) had to be in the same directory for it to work. Does anyone know if the document function requires that all files are in one directory, or can it use files in other directories?

Thanks for the help!

Look at the document function closely I believe there is a second parameter that you can pass that acts as the base URI for your XML file to be loaded.

JessicaD

I was finally able to get the document function to work (thanks, vpatel!), and outside of TeamSite during testing, my content displays correctly. When I move my XSL into a new component, the document function does not work. I traced the problem back to the variable.

The variable is pointing to a content section that contains an attribute. The attribute contains a file path. Outside of TS, I can assign that file path to my variable using this code:

[html]

[/html]

But when I put the XSL into the component, it doesn't recognize [html][/html]

I have to remove the /p/snippet/@dcrpath for it to return anything, and then it returns the entire node without parsing the tags inside:

[html]

Snippet Link SPSx11849

[/html]

I tried using disable-output-escaping="yes" but all that does is give me "Snippet Link SPSx11849" in my output. I also tried using copy-of instead of value-of, and that made no difference.

Does anyone know 1) why TS won't parse the tags, but the code works outside of TS, and 2) how to make TS parse through my content so I can use the file path as a variable?

Any help is appreciated!