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

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chad,

Since David's probably getting some well-earned sleep (or maybe not, 
with the mini-David to take care of) --

At 03:31 PM 7/3/2006, you wrote:
> David,
> How does the XSLT know the exact location of the files that you are
> listing. Do they need to be located in the same directory?

This depends on how you call document(). The function takes a second 
argument, identifying a node relative to which the URL is dereferenced. So

document('file.xml',/)

finds file.xml next to the XML entity in which the root node of the 
source document is found.

This defaults to work relative to the stylesheet.

The values of the nodes you give to document($nodes) can contain 
relative URLs if you like:

<list>
<file>file1.xml</file>
<file>../dir2/file2.xml</file>
<file>http://w3.org/find/me/here.xml</file>
</list>

calling document(file,.) from the context of the list element will 
find documents relative to the location of the list element, "." (or 
rather, of the XML entity in which the list element appears). So 
file1.xml should be next to this source document, file2.xml will be 
in the dir2 directory over one in the same file system, and the third 
document will be on the W3C web site....

I hope that helps,
Wendell