Template References and passing value to the Referenced Template

Imported from previous forum

[ original email was from Darshan Khedekar - darshan.khedekar.ext@deutsche-boerse.com ]
Is it possible to pass arguments to a common template referenced in other templates. Something like below?

...other fields for this template ...other fields for this template

Regards,
Darshan

Hi!

No, the FAST template syntax doesn’t include any support for parameterized templates. You’ll either have to specify the constant field separately as in


or you can choose to preprocess your extended format using for example XSLT to produce conforming templates.

/David

Is it possible to pass arguments to a common template referenced in
other templates. Something like below?


…other
fields for this template

…other
fields for this template

Regards, Darshan