[xsl] Problem XML Situation

["Joel Konkle-Parker" <jjk3 at msstate dot edu>]

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I've been trying to figure out how to solve a particular problem I'm
having, but for now I'm stuck. Any ideas guys?

The situation is this: My site uses Newspro for its daily site news
feature. Newspro outputs a snippet of html including the news pieces
as a .txt file. Normally, you would simply include this file into
your html file with SSI. Here are my problems:

- - I'm writing the articles featured on my site in pure XML/XSLT
- - My hosting service doesn't parse XML files for SSI
- - There are certain parts of the site's layout that I want to be
visible on every page (link lists, menus, etc), and I was planning on
doing this using multi-source XSLT
- - The document() XSLT function requires a valid XML document, which
this .txt snippet is not
- - If I rename the page needing SSI to have a .html extension while
still remaining an XML file, the SSI works
- - However using <xsl:value-of> to display this snippet displays only
the text, not all the related markup in the .txt file (divs, anchors,
etc)
- - If I make the page featuring the news HMTL and the rest XML, to
change menu items I'd have to edit two files instead of one (the HTML
file and the XML menu file called by its XSLT stylesheet)

If any of that made sense.... does anybody have any suggestions?

The page in question is http://www.ballsome.com/test/index.html
(xhtml version)

- -joeljkp

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http://www.ballsome.com 

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