At 2006-05-01 21:48 -0500, Gary E. Daniels wrote:
Hi. I have an XSL sheet to extract certain data from an XML
document. I use Saxon for the transform and have the output as
XML. I need to have the outputted XML document to contain a root
node. How do I code the XSL sheet to create the root node for the
XML output document?
All result documents have a root node ... it is the parent of the
document element. It has no name and it is the top of the node tree
that represents the result document. It has no reification in the
syntax of the serialized result tree (if you choose to serialize the
result tree).
Are you instead asking about creating a specific document element for
the result document?
The purpose is so I am able to run a different XSL transform on the
output XML document. Thanks.
I think you will need to provide more information because your use of
the terminology makes it difficult to answer the question as it is now posed.
In a transform, the result document begins with a root node. If you
add a single element child to that root and then only children and
descendants of that element, then you are creating an XML document
result. If you add zero or more than one elements as children of the
result tree root node, you are creating an external parsed general entity.
Can you rephrase your question with an example of what you have as
input and what you want as output? That may help us help you by
better illustrating what you need to learn.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . . . Ken
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