I've been told off-line that my example was poorly illustrated having
used a stylesheet as my input XML document.
Here is a revision to the example illustrating an important
difference between <xsl:include> and <xsl:import>. As Mike
mentioned, there are other important differences, but the incorrect
information posted to the archive was related to matching.
In this example the generic "xslt" command takes three
arguments: input file, stylesheet file, output file. In the DOS
command line "con" is the console for the output.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . . . Ken
t:\ftemp>type doc.xml
<doc/>
t:\ftemp>
t:\ftemp>type A.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/" priority="1000">
Stylesheet A
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
t:\ftemp>
t:\ftemp>type B.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:include href="A.xsl"/>
<xsl:template match="/" priority="1">
Stylesheet B
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
t:\ftemp>
t:\ftemp>type C.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:import href="A.xsl"/>
<xsl:template match="/" priority="1">
Stylesheet C
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
t:\ftemp>
t:\ftemp>xslt doc.xml B.xsl con
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
Stylesheet A
t:\ftemp>
t:\ftemp>xslt doc.xml C.xsl con
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
Stylesheet C
t:\ftemp>
At 2011-09-03 09:54 -0400, I wrote:
In my haste I described my two examples in the text backwards: in
fact B.xsl includes A.xsl and C.xsl imports A.xsl. The template
rule in B.xsl is overridden by match priority by the template rule
in A.xsl. The template rule in C.xsl overrides by import precedence
the template rule in A.xsl.
The stylesheet fragments are still correct illustrating the
difference between import and include, I just wrote the description
of the example incorrectly.
Please forgive my oversight due to my haste.
. . . . . . . . Ken
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