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RE: xsl:param and replace.xsl
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 23:07:42 -0000
- Subject: RE: [xsl] xsl:param and replace.xsl
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> My objective is to use the xsl stylesheet to replace text in a xml
> document without creating a new document.
An XSLT processor produces a result tree from a source tree. The source tree
is immutable. It would be possible in principle for the serialized result
file to overwrite the original serialized input file, but I can't see a good
reason for wanting to do that, and many good reasons for not doing it.
Mike Kay
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