Reading content from another DCR using XSL

alex_assard

We have built two forms for our homepage.

The article form to capture all the article info (meta, headline, intro and article-content). This form generates an xml.
The second form, the Homepage form is to specify which channels should display on the homepage and which article(s) should appear in each channel. This form should generate an html file. In this form, the user simply enters a channel label and then specifies which articles go into that channel by browsing to the article xml and selecting a file.

Our challenge is to load node information (headline and intro) from the article xml generated in in the article form into the second html file. We attempt to build the html homepage using the xsl document() function. In the tpl, when we extract the value of the browse to field like this:

xsl:value-of select="article/articlepath" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>

The output gives us the file path entered by the user (something like this: /content/home/internal/20091101aa.xml).

What we really need is to extract the headline and intro nodes from the file present at /content/home/internal/20091101aa.xml. We therefore used
xsl:variable name="path" select="article/articlepath"/>
xsl:value-of select="document($path)/article/headline" disable-output-escaping="yes"/> but for some reason this is not working.

Is there a way to achieve this just by using XSL or do we have to use FormAPI to call the nodes from the second DCR?

Thank you for your help.
Alex

nipper

Quite easy using TPLs, I have not tried it with an XSL but I think xsl:template match will do the trick. Try google.

If you get something simple working, post a simple example for others.

HTH

Andy