Re: [xsl] writing to a file in xslt

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

a kusa wrote:

> I have a requirement where I am reading from a file and assigning
> values in the XSL style sheet. But when I read the values form this
> external file, I have to compare it with what got assigned before this
> and if it is the same, I have to increment this new value.
>
> So for example, I have a folder with 5 XML files. When I am processing
> the first XML file, I go read the external text file and grab the
> first value and assign it to this first XML file.
> Now, when processing the second XML file, I again go to grab the next
> value from the external file, but this time I have to compare this
> value with what was assigned to XML file number 1, and if they are the
> same, I have to increment this value by 1 before assigning it to the
> second XML file.
>
> So is there any way to write to another file in XSLT? If I can do
> that, then maybe I can compare the next value by reading that new
> file.

XSLT 2.0 can read from text files with unparsed-text and can create text 
files with xsl:result-document and the text output method but don't 
expect to be able in one transformation to read from and write to the 
same file.

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