Re: [xsl] Mixing XML and non-XML input possible ?

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas,

As others have said, there is a function you can use in XSLT 2.0 for 
this purpose.

In XSLT 1.0, you can wrap the text file into an XML file as a parsed 
general entity, and call it that way. As long as it will parse to 
create a text node (that is, it has to be free of unescaped < and &, 
and it has to be correct with respect to its character encoding), 
this will work. Strictly speaking, this is not an XSLT feature; you 
are just taking advantage of a feature in XML.

<!DOCTYPE wrapper [
<!ENTITY textfile SYSTEM "textfile.txt" >
]>
<wrapper>&textfile;</wrapper>

Cheers,
Wendell

At 02:39 AM 10/24/2007, you wrote:
> am I right, that XSLT is unable to take any non-XML textfile as input?
>
> The problem I am facing is, that I have to insert the contents of a
> plain text file into a node within an XHTML file for a statically built
> web-site. I found no way how to do it.
>
> --
> Greetings,
> Andreas Mixich


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