Subject: RE: document() for non-XML documents From: Mike Brown <mbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:41:16 -0600 |
> The document() function allows me to merge multiple XML input > documents. [...] > > However, suppose I want to insert the contents of a simple text file: > > <include href="compositions.txt"/> The document() function returns a node-set, so as you discovered, the function does not create a node-set when the argument is the URI of a non-XML file. Perhaps in the future, if the file exists and is not XML, the default could be to assume there is a <document> element with the document contents as a single child text node. Until then, it sounds like you don't really need the included file to be treated as a source tree. Why don't you just declare an external entity: <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY sometext SYSTEM "compositions.txt">\ <!ENTITY nbsp " "> ]> ... <foo>Here's that file: &sometext;</foo> One thing I'm not clear on is whether appending to the DTD for an XSL document by (re)declaring it is actually valid. Anyone? XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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