Re: [xsl] Perpetuating xsl instructions

Subject: Re: [xsl] Perpetuating xsl instructions
From: Alan Gardner <scipiomedia@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 13:48:15 -0600
Actually the database handles the 'how many' and 'which' xml docs to
transform - which is way the solution had to be scalable to n. I just got
done building the prototype with the excellent code Lars posted earlier.

Alan
 
On 5/13/03 11:05 AM, "Passin, Tom" <tpassin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It depends on how you are supposed to know which xml pieces to
> concatenate.  Assuming there is some way to know that beforehand, I
> would create a driver file and run the transform against it instead.
> Something like this -
> 
> driver.xml
> 
> <pieces>
> <piece src='file:///piece1.xml'/>
> <piece src='file:///piece2.xml'/>
> ...
> </pieces>
> 
> aggregate.xsl
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet .....>
> <xsl:template match='/pieces'>
> <wrapper-element>
>  <xsl:for-each select='piece'>
>     <xsl:copy-of select='document(@src)'/>
>  </xsl:for-each>
> </wrapper-element>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> This is simple and easy to maintain, and very clear as to what it is
> doing.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tom P
> 
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> 
> 


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