Re: [xsl] Creating Multiple Files from One Input File (fwd)

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Betty,

Yes, it would make sense to import the stylesheet you already have into 
another that would do the file splitting.

This requirement is high enough on the list for XSLT 2.0, that the 
(now-shelved) XSLT 1.1 working draft specifies a syntax for it. Saxon 
implements this syntax.

A pure XSLT 1.0 alternative (I think someone mentioned) is to alter the 
stylesheet to just pick out a chunk and do that alone; then run the 
stylesheet multiple times. This could be parameterized from the command 
line or in a batch process. In this case also, the "chunking" stylesheet 
can import the one you have to do the whole thing, thus saving lots of work.

Michael mentions several processors with extensions: of course they're 
non-standard (including, strictly speaking, Saxon's in the XSLT 1.1 
namespace). MSXML doesn't implement one (to my knowledge).

Betty, an implementation of this approach (relying on Saxon) appears in the 
Mulberry slideshow distribution: check out 
http://www.mulberrytech.com/slideshow.

Cheers,
Wendell

  At 11:53 AM 10/5/01, Michael wrote:
>Hi, Betty:
>
>BH> The subject says it all.  I would like to create multiple files
>BH> based on a single input files.  I haven't found anyway to do it is
>BH> XSLT.  I can do it with Omnimark fairly easy but would prefer to
>BH> do it in XSLT since a stylesheet has already been created for the
>BH> entire files.
>
>Several of the XSLT processors have extensions (saxon:output,
>xt:document, xalan:write) to produce multiple output files...I guess
>I'm not exactly sure what you're asking...


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