Re: [xsl] unparsed text

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The second part of the answer (which I guess Ken assumed you already 
knew) is that having started your transformation without an XML document 
as input, you can then read the text file using the unparsed-text() 
function.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

On 15/11/2012 19:11, G. Ken Holman wrote:
> At 2012-11-15 19:05 +0000, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
> >  I need to process a plain text file with XSLT... do I have to fake an
> > XML document to input as there is no XML
>
> It all depends on how you invoke the XSLT processor.
>
> You can invoke XSLT by specifying the name of a starting template.  An 
> example using Saxon is:
>
>   java -jar saxon.jar -it:start-me-up -xsl:myStylesheet.xsl
>
> ... and then have:
>
>   <xsl:template name="start-me-up">
>
> But I often just supply the stylesheet as my input XML document:
>
>   java -jar saxon.jar -s:myStylesheet.xsl -xsl:myStylesheet.xsl
>
> ... and then have:
>
>   <xsl:template match="/">
>
> Remember that an XSLT stylesheet is, itself, an XML document.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> . . . . . . . Ken
>
>
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