Re: [xsl] merging document from filelist

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Victor,

At 05:11 PM 12/17/2004, you wrote:
> can anyone advise how the list of multiple documents can be merged in one
> "super document"?

Sure.

The document() function can take an entire node set as argument, returning 
an entire set of documents for processing.

So if you have

<filelist>
  <file>a.xml</file>
  <file>b.xml</file>
  <file>c.xml</file>
</filelist>

then document(/filelist/file) will parse these files and pull them into a 
single node set, which you can process as if it were a normal source file.

Recursion is not needed.

If all you want to do is aggregate them, you could simply have:

<xsl:template match="filelist">
  <collection>
    <xsl:copy-of select="document(file)"/>
  </collection>
</xsl:template>

or use document(file,/) if the file references are relative to the listing, 
not to the stylesheet.

See more on all this and more at 
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N2602.html. And let us know if this 
isn't sufficient to get you where you need to go.

Good luck,
Wendell



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