[xsl] single document write

[gl <glarowe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I've searched the archives for an answer to this problem, so I 
apologize for any repeat posting.

I have a large XML file composed of multiple <article> element trees. I 
am attempting to use XSLT to transform this large XML file into a 
tab-delimited file format suitable for uploading into an Open Source 
database. Each <article> contains some one-to-many relationships which 
I am trying to capture in separate files for uploading into a 
corresponding table. One of these is an <AuthorList>.

Right now, the stylesheet template transforms and outputs a single file 
for each author using the result-document directive, but what I would 
like to do is just write to a single author file every time the 
stylesheet template processes a single author. Is this possible?

I am using saxon (saxon8.jar) for the processing ...

For example, XML for an <AuthorList> inside the <article> tag:

<article>
...
...
<AuthorList CompleteYN="Y">
<Author ValidYN="Y">
<LastName>Di Venere</LastName>
<ForeName>A</ForeName>
<Initials>A</Initials>
</Author>
<Author ValidYN="Y">
<LastName>Rossi</LastName>
<ForeName>A</ForeName>
<Initials>A</Initials>
</Author>
<Author ValidYN="Y">
<LastName>De Matteis</LastName>
<ForeName>F</ForeName>
<Initials>F</Initials>
</Author>
<Author ValidYN="Y">
<LastName>Rosato</LastName>
<ForeName>N</ForeName>
<Initials>N</Initials>
</Author>
<Author ValidYN="Y">
<LastName>Agr</LastName>
<ForeName>A F</ForeName>
<Initials>AF</Initials>
</Author>
<Author ValidYN="Y">
<LastName>Mei</LastName>
<ForeName>G</ForeName>
<Initials>G</Initials>
</Author>
</AuthorList>
...
...
</article>

XSL template for the <AuthorList>:

<xsl:template name="authorlist">
            <xsl:param name="pmid"/>
            <xsl:if test="Article/AuthorList/Author">
            <!-- write author data to author/pmid output file           
                          -->
            <!-- tab delimited                                          
                          -->
            <!-- fields:  pmid    valid(y/n)      name_last       
name_first      initials        -->
            <!-- unique identifier: pmid value                          
                          -->
            <xsl:result-document href="author/mal_{$pmid}.pgsql">
              <xsl:for-each select="Article/AuthorList/Author">
                <xsl:value-of select="$pmid"/><xsl:value-of 
select="$tab"/><xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(@ValidYN)"
/><xsl:value-of select="$tab"/><xsl:value-of 
select="normalize-space(LastName)"/><xsl:value-of 
select="$tab"/><xsl:value-of
 select="normalize-space(ForeName)"/><xsl:value-of 
select="$tab"/><xsl:value-of 
select="normalize-space(Initials)"/><xsl:va
lue-of select="$newline"/>
                </xsl:for-each>
            </xsl:result-document>
            </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

Thanks in advance,

Best,

Gerry