[xsl] Re: Dynamic include

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Peter Davis <pdavis152 at attbi dot com> wrote:

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> * Or, why not make the source XML with the <include> tag into a
> stylesheet of 
> its own?  This will involve two stages of processing: the first
> outputs
> a 
> stylesheet containing only the <xsl:include> elements, and the second
> uses 
> the newly generated stylesheet to re-process the data using the
> included 
> stylesheets.  For example:
> 
> + Output from first stage:
>   <xsl:stylesheet ...>
>     <xsl:include href="principal.xsl"/>
>     <!-- taken from <include> element -->
>     <xsl:include href="page1.xsl"/>
>   </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> + Second stage uses the first stage's output stylesheet, and
> processes
> the 
> input XML again (this time ignoring the <include> element).
> 
> It should be possible to optimize the two stages to keep from parsing
> the 
> source XML twice, by reusing the DOM tree if the data will fit into
> RAM.
> 
> HTH
> 
> -- 
> Peter Davis


It would be much more efficient to use a ***stylesheet skeleton***
file, in which to update (using DOM+XPath, e.g. setAttribute()) just
the value of the href attribute of the necessary xsl:import element.




=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL

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