Hi!
In the following draft version of XSL 2.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#element-output
there is this instruction:
<!-- Category: instruction -->
<xsl:result-document
format = qname
href = { uri-reference }
type-information = "strict" | "lax" | "preserve" | "none">
<!-- Content: content-constructor -->
</xsl:result-document>
and
<!-- Category: declaration -->
<xsl:output
name = qname
method = "xml" | "html" | "xhtml" | "text" | qname-but-not-ncname
version = nmtoken
encoding = string
omit-xml-declaration = "yes" | "no"
standalone = "yes" | "no"
doctype-public = string
doctype-system = string
cdata-section-elements = qnames
escape-uri-attributes = "yes" | "no"
include-content-type = "yes" | "no"
indent = "yes" | "no"
media-type = string
normalize-unicode = "yes" | "no" />
In my opinion there should be something that instructs the
processor to overwrite or concatenate the result to external file.
(Sorry about my Mika Häkkinen english).
The example usage of this instruction:
<xsl:stylesheet
version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<xsl:output name="log" version="2.0" method="xml" indent="yes"
doctype-system="example"
doctype-public="example"/>
<xsl:output name="content" method="html" indent="no"
doctype-system="example"
doctype-public="example"/>/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<!-- write this to the content -->
<xsl:result-document href="content.html"
format="content" type-information="none">
<xsl:value-of select = "translate('jarkko','j','J')" />
</xsl:result-document>
<!-- write this to the log -->
<xsl:result-document href="log.xml"
format="log" type-information="none">
<logElement>Initiated translate function</logElement>
// but there is noway to say that the element should overwrite the
// existing content in the log.xml or neither is there option to say that
// the element should be written after existing content in log.xml
</xsl:result-document>
<!-- write this to the content -->
<xsl:result-document href="content.html"
format="content" type-information="none">
....do other stuff.....
<xsl:value-of select = "$foo" />
</xsl:result-document>
<xsl:result-document format="xml" href="log.xml">
<logElement>Called variable foo</logElement>
</xsl:result-document>
// so this <logelement> should also be written to the log.xml file
// after the previous one.
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Opinions?
Cheers,
Jarkko
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