RE: [xsl] Appending to existing file

["Colin Adams" <colinpauladams@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "J. Zhang" <j.zhang@xxxxxx>

> I am writing my output to multiple files. However, I need to write my
> output to existing files that have already been created. In Saxon I get
>  an error:
>
> XTDE1490: Cannot write more than one result document to the same URI, or
> write to a URI
>
> Simple question: How can you append to an existing file?

Write your output to a temporary file, then after XSLT finishes, use an 
operating system command (or programming language library command) to append 
the contents of the temporary file to the existing file.

Alternatively, you could read the existing file using an alias URI to get 
the existing contents, and then write it out as part of the transformation. 
This is quite likely to not work. (you might well find the existing contents 
to be empty).

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