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Re: Imbbeding text files
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Imbbeding text files
- From: Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:48:30 +0100
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Hi Gilles,
At 08:41 PM 5/30/01, you wrote:
>I have used the document() function to access data from a separate xml file.
>Is there a way to have the document() function read the data in a simple
>text file and imbed this data as text for an element in the output file?
Not exactly, as such. The expectation of document() is that "the data
resulting from the retrieval action is parsed as an XML document and a tree
is constructed..." (XSLT 12.1), and as you know, an XML document has to
have at least a (single) root element.
On the other hand, as long as there are no pesky open-markup-delimiters
(i.e. '<' or '&') in it, a plain text file can be included in an XML
document as an external parsed entity. So if you had:
file.txt:
Here's some text I want to include
file.xml:
<!DOCTYPE shell [
<!ENTITY file SYSTEM file.txt>
]>
<shell>&file;</shell>
You could use document('file.xml') from your XSL and get your text back (it
would be wrapped in the <shell> element).
Of course, you could also include the external parsed entity in your
stylesheet and not even have to use document(). (Be sure and wrap the
entity reference, though, as in <xsl:text>&file;</xsl:text>.)
Hope that helps,
Wendell
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