Philip Nye wrote: > I am struggling with my stylesheets to get communication between the commands > in my config file and the view generated by my stylesheet. I can pass values > to a macro command but I cannot display use the results in generated content > unless they go into an attribute or element value. > > Is there any way in generated content from my stylesheet that I can display > either a macro variable or a config file parameter or the result of a macro?
The only way to do that is to use Java system properties: --> In configuration files, <property> elements are used to specify Java system properties. See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/docs/configure/ch06s17.html --> There is no native command to assign Java system properties. For now, you can use this horrible hack: --- <command name="setSystemProperty"> <macro> <sequence> <get expression="sys:setProperty('%0','%1')" xmlns:sys="java:java.lang.System" /> <command name="alert" parameter="previous value of '%0' was '%_'" /> </sequence> </macro> </command> <binding> <keyPressed code="F2" /> <command name="setSystemProperty" parameter="Hello 'beautiful world!'" /> </binding> --- Press F2 *twice* to see the macro at work. Remove "<command name="alert"..." for production use. --> A Java system property can be referenced like that in the CSS style sheet: --- @namespace sys "java:java.lang.System"; ... a[name]:after, a[id]:after { content: icon(right-target) xpath("sys:getProperty('user.home')"); color: gray; vertical-align: text-top; } --- See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/docs/commands/ch07s02.html
