Subject: Re: [xsl] read/write in the same xml file From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 00:39:17 +0100 |
me>then XSLT is not your language of choice. You need a language tha allows me>updaing of in place XML trees. > I don't see why the OP doesn't simply do (apologies for the archaic shell > language): > > copy file.xml input.xml > xslt -in input.xml -xsl stylesheet.xsl -out file.xml > del input.xml It depends on the context (which I don't think has been given in any detail) if file.xml is 10 terrabytes of stuff and you want to change 1 entry, writing a stylesheet to regenerate the whole database with one entry changed might not be the most efficient approach, and using a database language or just dom scripting to a writable tree might make more sense than XSLT. Me though, I do as you indicate above (although I've never used a command line that has "copy" and "del" for "cp" and "rm" :-) David XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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