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I have been trying for some time now to rewrite the bulk of a web application framework using XML and XSLT. Essentially, the framework outputs an XHTML document by recursively parsing Java objects that can render themselves via a method call. Each web application that uses the framework has a Site object that generates something like (excluding doctype and attributes): <html> <head> { SITE CSS FILE} { MODULE CSS FILE} { VIEW CSS FILE} <head> <body> { MODULE XHTML } </body> </html> When the Site object renders itself, it replaces the { SITE CSS FILE } template with a link to its CSS file, and then calls the render() method on a Module object that does the same and fills in the {MODULE XHTML } template. The Module object in turn calls render() on a View object which follows the same process. In reality it is a little more complicated than this, since each of these objects can include self-rendering components, but that gives the general idea. What I am trying to do is replace this templating nonsense with XML documents that represent a Site, Module, and View object respectively. I have been using the XSL document() function from XPath to pull in the Module.xml document, which does the same to pull in the View.xml document. This is fine, and it builds the result tree into an XHTML document as expected, but using this method I have to put the XSL parsing instructions for every one of my parsable XML files into one huge XSL document. What I would much prefer to do is specify a separate XSL document for each XML document, and use the matched XSL to parse the XML and pull the resulting parsed document into the original source document. Is there any way to do this? I have been up to my eyeballs in standards documents for the past few weeks and have not been able to find an answer. Any help would be greatly appreciated. --James Adams
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