RE: [xsl] Splitting multiple node occurrences into separate xmls

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > I need to do a transformation that will take an input xml
> > > string in a format
> > > that is something like
> > > ...<a>1</a><a>2</a><a>3</a><a>4</a>...
> > > and apart from transforming it, will split the multiple node
> > > occurrences for
> > > "a" into different xml's i.e.
> > > xml[1]=<a>1</a>
> > > xml[2]=<a>2</a>...
> >
> >XSLT 2.0 solution:
> >
> ><xsl:template match="a">
> >   <xsl:result-document href="file{position()}.xml">
> >     <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
> >   </xsl:result-document>
> ></xsl:template>
> >
> >Some XSLT 1.0 processors have extensions that do similar things.
> >
> 
> So here, I guess the multiple output xmls are created as 
> files.

Just because it has a URI doesn't mean it's a file! (though that is the
default, of course).

> Is there 
> anyway that the xml's can instead be returned to the java 
> program that 
> called the transformation, so that the program does not have 
> to read them from disk?

This depends on the processor API. Saxon allows you to nominate an
OutputURIResolver which is called to process each result document as it is
written; for example it can supply a SAX ContentHandler which feeds the
output into another transformation.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/