Re: [xsl] newbie: multiple output files with xsl:document

Hi Heather,

> Also, just in trying to accomplish this I keep getting parsing errors
> under IE 6 such as "Keyword xsl:template may not contain xsl:document."
> Here is my silly little xsl file that aims to just make a link and create
> another html file, but produces the above error:
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl"; version="1.1">
> <xsl:template match="xbk">
>     <xsl:document href="preface.html">
>         <html><body bgcolor="#00eeee"><center>
>             <xsl:apply-templates/>
>         </center><hr/></body></html>
>     </xsl:document>
>     <a href="preface.html">Preface</a>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>

You *are* mixed up, but it's not surprising!

First, you're using the Microsoft-specific WD-xsl namespace rather
than the XSLT namespace. Your namespace declaration (xmlns:xsl
attribute) needs to have the value
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform for MSXML (the processor built in
to IE) and other XSLT processors to recognise it as XSLT. (IE6 will
try to process the stylesheet anyway, because it still recognises
WD-xsl, but no other XSLT processor would.)

Second, you're trying to use XSLT 1.1. XSLT 1.1 never got beyond a
Working Draft -- over a year ago, the XSL Working Group stopped
working on it to start tackling XSLT 2.0. The changes proposed in XSLT
1.1 are supported by a couple of XSLT processors (Saxon and jd.xslt in
particular), but not by MSXML. That means that you can't use
xsl:document with MSXML.

XSLT 2.0, which is a Working Draft at the moment, has a new element
called xsl:result-document, which works in much the same way as
xsl:document used to. You can use it to create documents of all kinds,
in just the same way as you create principal result documents. So if
you amended your stylesheet for XSLT 2.0 that would work... if you
used a processor that supported the XSLT 2.0 Working Draft, that is.
MSXML only supports XSLT 1.0; the only processor that supports any of
XSLT 2.0 is Saxon (version 7.1).

Some other processors have extension elements to generate multiple
result documents, such as redirect:write in Xalan, but those are
processor-specific, and MSXML doesn't support any such extension
element.

So basically if you're using MSXML, you're stuck, I'm afraid -- you
have to use a different process to manage the creation of the separate
documents, perhaps using a parameter passed into the stylesheet to
determine which of the documents gets generated, and managing through
code what happens to the results of each of the transformations.

(BTW, have a look at the MSXML FAQ at http://www.netcrucible.com/ if
you want to know more about the difference between WD-xsl and XSLT.)

Cheers,

Jeni

---
Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com/


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