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RE: merging with document()
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:40:40 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] merging with document()
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> I want to merge, and otherwise compare and manipulate,
> multiple xml docs in one stylesheet....
> I've been looking at a merge stylesheet found at
> http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~obecker/XSLT/ - and it's
> been great - but he uses recursion to loop through the
> different nodesets, and I was wondering if there was a
> simpler way to do it.
>
You need to fight your fear of recursion. You can't keep writing XSLT
with one hand tied behind your back for ever. Recursion almmost
certainly IS the simpler way to do it.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
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