My goal is to use the xsl to split a large xml into multple
smaller xml
files and save them on the disk.
How can I achieve this goal? I read about saxon extension
saxon:output and
xsl:result-document. Which one is good for me for my task? How can I
instruct the xsl processor what the directory the output file
should be
saved at using href attributes? and without using -o .
saxon:output was the Saxon extension used in Saxon 6.x to achieve multiple
output files; xsl:result-document is the replacement facility in XSLT 2.0,
which is implemented in Saxon 7.x. The xsl:result-document facility requires
that output files are stored relative to the principal result file; this is
a security precaution to make sure that the stylesheet has access to the
filestore where it is writing. (saxon:output in 6.5.3 doesn't have this
rule, which means it has a security risk if you allow untrusted stylesheets
to run on your machine, which is why there is a flag to disable this
facility, along with extension functions).
I don't know enough about the ant XSLT task to know how you would set this
flag, you may have to call the XSLT processor directly.
Michael Kay