The low tech way to accomplish this is to use PERL to create the XSLT
on the fly. You can just jam the values directly in or define an
<xsl:variable>
kyle
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:44 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
>
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