Re: [xsl] Process one document, but change another

["G. Ken Holman g.ken.holman@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2014-09-08 14:05 +0000, Rick Quatro rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I have an XML document with a series of <image> elements. They have href
> attributes that reference svg files. For each of these <image> elements, I
> want to open the corresponding svg file and copy some information from my
> source document to the svg file. So while the stylesheet is processing one
> document, I want to be able to change the other documents. Is this possible
> with XSLT? Any pointers would be appreciated.

In pseudo-code I would approach this as:


  for-each image
    result-document href=new directory and name created from image/@href
      apply-templates mode=modify select=document(@href in old directory)
        with-param tunnel=yes name=info select=image information

  match=everything mode=modify
    copy
      apply-templates select=@*,node() mode=modify

  match=item-to-change-in-SVG mode=modify
    param name=info tunnel=yes
    change the item using the image information


I hope this helps and isn't too cryptic.  It processes your documents 
from a source directory to your new target directory (since you can't 
overwrite a document that is being read).

. . . . . . Ken


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