Hi Andrew,

> If you are using some sort of XSL processor in a programming 
> language (java, php, ruby) you can "assign" a variable to the
> xsl file and use the variable in the file much like you would
> in any other scripting environment.

The XSL processor is (I assume) being invoked from within the OPAC's Java program, but alas, I don't have access to the source code (and am not a Java programmer anyway).

> You can also go one step ahead and use XQuery which gives you 
> the ability to access a FLOWR based enviornment where you can
> declare variables and introduce some more advanced logic over XSL.

I'm not familiar with this, but will look into it.  Thanks.

-- Michael

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On 
> Behalf Of Andrew Nagy
> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 3:05 PM
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> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] How to access environment variables in XSL
> 
> If you are using some sort of XSL processor in a programming 
> language (java,
> php, ruby) you can "assign" a variable to the xsl file and 
> use the variable
> in the file much like you would in any other scripting environment.
> 
> You can also go one step ahead and use XQuery which gives you 
> the ability to
> access a FLOWR based enviornment where you can declare variables and
> introduce some more advanced logic over XSL.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Doran, Michael D 
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> > I am working with some XSL pages that serve up HTML on the 
> web.  I'm new to
> > XSL.   In my prior web development, I was accustomed to 
> being able to access
> > environment variables (and their values, natch) in my CGI 
> scripts and/or via
> > Server Side Includes.  Is there an equivalent mechanism for 
> accessing those
> > environment variables within an XSL page?
> >
> > These are examples of the variables I'm referring to:
> >    SERVER_NAME
> >    SERVER_PORT
> >    HTTP_HOST
> >    DOCUMENT_URI
> >    REMOTE_ADDR
> >    HTTP_REFERER
> >
> > In a Perl CGI script, I would do something like this:
> >    my $server = $ENV{'SERVER_NAME'};
> >
> > Or in an SSI, I could do something like this:
> >    <!--#echo var="REMOTE_ADDR"-->
> >
> > If it matters, I'm working in: Solaris/Apache/Tomcat
> >
> > I've googled this but not found anything useful yet (except 
> for other
> > people asking the same question).  Maybe I'm asking the 
> wrong question.  Any
> > help would be appreciated.
> >
> > -- Michael
> >
> > # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian
> > # University of Texas at Arlington
> > # 817-272-5326 office
> > # 817-688-1926 mobile
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> > # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/
> >
> >
>