Re: [xsl] Appending to existing file

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

J. Zhang wrote:
> 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?
That is not possible in a single transform. One way to do it in XSLT is 
to do two transformations:

  1. Transform into separate temp files
  2. Concatenate the temp files that need concatenation (with 
unparsed-text() for instance)

but the second step is just as easily done with any pipe command in DOS 
or Linux command prompt, i.e., in DOS you can do:

type temp1.xml >> final.xml
type temp2.xml >> final.xml
type temp3.xml >> final.xml

Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma