Re: [xsl] Transforming multiple XML files into one file

[Chad Chelius <cchelius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David,
Sorry for not being clearer about this in the beginning. What I have  
is several separate XML files. We'll call them file1.xml, file2.xml,  
and file3.xml. What I want to do is take the <story> element from  
each one of those files and generate one big xml file on output that  
combines those elements. How would I do something like that?

chad

On Jun 21, 2006, at 5:27 AM, David Carlisle wrote:

> not sure what you mean but if you have  a file
> <files>
>  <z>one.xml</z>
>  <z>two.xml</z>
>  <z>three.xml</z>
> </files>
>
> and go
>
> <xsl:variable name="files" select="document(document('files.xml')/ 
> files/z)"/>
>
> then $files is a node set of three document nodes representing one.xml
> two.xml and three.xml and you can apply
> templates to all three at once with
> <xsl:apply-templates select="$files"/>
> or extract elements from all three documents with
> xsl:for-each select="$files/some/path/to/here"
>
> David