[XML-SIG] 4xslt - passing parameters

[Mike Olson]

> 
> Yes, you should be able to do that. How exactly are you invoking the
> transformation? If you have a Processor instance proc, and you are calling,
> e.g.
>   
>   proc.runStream(str)
>   
> then you can simply add the keyword argument topLevelParams with a
> dictionary of parameters as its value. For example:
> 
>   result = proc.runStream(str, topLevelParams={'page': 27})

I'm not sure if this works, though it might (let me know if it does). 
The problem is that the key in the dictionary must contain the namespace
of the variable as well.  So assuming the variable is referenced as
"$page" then the dictionary that is passed in must be:

  {('','page'),27}

Mike


> 
> If that doesn't address your need, perhaps you could post a sample of
> your code.
> 
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