Re: [xsl] Output to a file...

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Naschke, Pete wrote:
> OK...the answer is "yes". (This is excellent...)
>
> The code I am using is: "<xsl:output method="text" />"
>
> Now...where does the text file get saved to? Where can it be found?
>
> (Perhaps I am misinterpreting "= text" to mean that a file is being
> created. Perhaps it only means that some text is being printed to the
> screen...)
>   

One of the basic things to learn about XSLT that it does a 
transformation for you and that it creates an output tree, but that you 
have to tell it yourself what to do with it.

Depending on the processor you are using, which you did not specify, you 
can do that in several ways. Mostly:

1. On the commandline, pipe stdout to your preferred output file
2. On the commandline, using the commandline option of your processor, 
i.e. -out or -o or whatever
3. From your calling application, i.e., with Java, using any interface 
that is applicable,i.e., JAXP
4. From your workflow application, that can capture stdout
5. Using a PI inside the XML source file and calling the XML file in a 
way your processor understands (sometimes this goes automatically)
6. If in a browser, you'll have to use either JavaScript, or a PI to get 
the output, but the output can, of course, not be saved
etc....

HTH,
Cheers,
Abel