Re: [xsl] Transforming tabular information to hierarchical

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Simon Shutter wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> So I substituted my file URL for the one Andrew used but I'm not sure what
> to do next.  What (input xml file) am I transforming?  Can you apply an XSL
> file without an input file?

Yes. In XSLT 2 you can. In XSLT 1, if you wanted to do that, the trick 
was usually to apply the stylesheet itself as input. In this case, the 
stylesheet does little when applied normally. Andrew made the initial 
template to have the name "main" (could be any named template). A 
processor must give you a way to set the "initial template", which is 
the name of this template: "main".

With Saxon this is:
java -jar saxon8.jar -it main yourstylesheet.xslt

Because you use an external resource with unparsed-text() function, 
there is no XML input in this case at all.

-- Abel