I found a helpful message in the archives by Jenni Tennison on this one, but
unfortunately it doesn't address the matter of XSL stylesheets in
sub-documents, rather than using the transformation templates of the
governing document.
I have also searched through Google on "multiple XML documents" and various
related filters, to no avail. Accordingly, I will perform the separate
transformations and recombination in Javascript, unless anyone here can
point me to a better alternative?
Regards,
Alex
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Hildyard" <alexhildyard(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com>
To: <XSL-List(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 1:55 PM
Subject: [xsl] Including multiple XML documents with associated stylesheets
Hi,
I've looked through the FAQ but haven't found a solution to this problem:
I'm trying to include multiple XML documents, and each sub-document has
its
own stylesheet. What I find is that I can load each sub-document in
isolation and its associated stylesheet is applied without problems
(test-file.xml), but the stylesheet is blatantly ignored when I try to
load
it as part of a collection of documents (files-list.xml). My understanding
is that the individual stylesheets' markup isn't being applied because
I've
never explicitly requested it to be applied, but I'm not quite sure
exactly
what "apply-templates" argument I would want in this case?
I'm enclosing the files below, to make things a bit clearer:
Many thanks,
Alex
[files-list.xml]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="iterate-files.xslt" ?>
<!-- This top-level document holds references to the set of external
files that should be marked up on this page. It can also hold
any scripts that should be globally accessible
-->
<html>
<head />
<body>
<files>
<file src="test-file.xml"></file>
<file src="test-file2.xml"></file>
</files>
</body>
</html>
[iterate-files.xslt]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:transform version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<!--
This template iterates through the file list defined within
a <files> element and processes the set of external XML files
contained within it
-->
<xsl:template match="files">
<xsl:for-each select="file">
<xsl:for-each select="document(@src)">
<xsl:copy-of select="test" />
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:transform>
[test-file.xml]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="test-file.xslt" ?>
<test>
<div>
This tag shouldn't appear
</div>
</test>
[test-file.xslt]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:transform version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<!-- All the directives in this file seem toget ignored -->
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>
<!-- Template to prove directives in this file are processed:
replace the contents of the <div> with a new string
-->
<xsl:template match="div">
This text should appear
</xsl:template>
</xsl:transform>
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