Hi At 02:24 PM 7/22/2005, iwantto keepanon wrote:
See Example 1 "parsed entities" @ http://www.topxml.com/code/default.asp?
p=3&id=v20030524142328&ms=20&l=xslt&sw=All
Basically this is your XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE allproducts [
<!ENTITY resourceA SYSTEM "ProductSalesSW.xml">
<!ENTITY resourceB SYSTEM "ProductSalesNW.xml">
]>
<allproducts>
&resourceA;
&resourceB;
</allproducts>
And this could be your XSLT:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="allproducts">
<xsl:element name="products" >
<xsl:copy-of select="." />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
(full listings, discussion, and XML input files at URL.)
You could write a small quick CGI (bash, perl, anything) to generate
the XML file based on files/directories. Then the XSLT script would
take it from there w/o document() function calls.
My question to the list is, why hasnt this been offered as a solution
to several recent queries like "how do i combine .... ?". Is this a
good solution?
It's not a bad solution -- and it has been offered, though not recently,
and though in answer to a slightly different question. See
http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200411/msg01016.html.
The reason it's not the *best* answer is probably that it's insufficiently
general. Due to a weakness in XML's design -- differences in definition
between a "document" and a "well-formed external parsed general entity" --
it won't work in all cases; in particular, you won't be able to do it when
any "subdocuments" have DOCTYPE declarations.
Cheers,
Wendell
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