RE: [xsl] xslt processing XML file by applying multiple transformation

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another approach (as long as you're using an extension): Saxon has a nice 
way to manage this kind of thing, even nicer if you use it with a "wrapper" 
stylesheet. Something like this:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
  xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon";>

<!-- this stylesheet runs the first pass and hands the
     result to be run with the second pass -->

<xsl:import href="pass-one.xsl"/>

<xsl:output saxon:next-in-chain="pass-two.xsl"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>

This way the two passes can still be maintained in separate stylesheets. 
Execute the transform with the wrapper, and both passes are run on the 
source in sequence.

Mike can confirm what's being passed here -- I think it might be SAX 
events, not a result tree as such. But it's still fast (only the final 
output gets written to a file), and handy. (You can even pass to a second 
wrapper if your chain has a third stylesheet.)

Cheers,
Wendell

At 12:27 PM 1/12/2005, Mark wrote:
> >
> > If I absolutely could not get it done in one pass, I'd use modes
> > for this,
> > as Mark Lundquist pointed out.
> >
> > However, it may be easier to do this as one pass than you might think. As
> > Michael Kay has oft pointed out, you can write the results of your first
> > transformation into a variable and then process the contents of the
> > variable, giving you complete processing in one pass.
>
> Look again, that's *exactly* what my example does :-) :-)
> -ml-


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