Re: XSL to XSL?

Yes.

You can take advantage of the built-in XSLT 1.0
feature called <xsl:namespace-alias> to do the 
following:

<x:stylesheet xmlns:x="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
              xmlns:xsl="anything" version="1.0">
<x:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<x:namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="xsl" result-prefix="x"/>
<x:template match="/">
  <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0">
    <xsl:template match="/">
      <xsl:value-of select="foo"/>
    </xsl:template>
   </xsl:stylesheet>
</x:template>
</x:stylesheet>

This outputs the valid XSLT stylesheet:

<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
   <xsl:template match="/">
      <xsl:value-of select="foo"/>
   </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I tried this with the Oracle XSLT Processor release 2.0.2.7,
but any XSLT-REC-compliant processor should behave
similarly. I just also tried Saxon 5.2, XT which work as well.

______________________________________________________________
Steve Muench, Lead XML Evangelist & Consulting Product Manager
Business Components for Java Dev't Team, Oracle Corporation

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael J. Hudson" <mhudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 12:28 PM
Subject: XSL to XSL?


| 
| Here's what I'm currently doing.  My task is to come up with a 
| general way to transform any one XML file into another XML file
| with different DTDs.  Now, what I'm doing is creating a tool that
| creates a mapping file that maps elements from one XML file to
| another.  This is all fine and dandy.  But now, I need to write
| an XSLT file that translates that XML mapping file into another
| XSLT script.  That final XSLT script being the script that people
| would use to translate their XML files from one to another.
| 
| The problem I'm having is getting an XSL script to output XSL
| elements.  That is, I want the output to be another XSL file. 
| The way I'm currently solving this, is using another namespace
| other than xsl.... say temp.  So, that 'xsl:for-each' becomes
| 'temp:for-each'.  And then I have a method that reads in the
| output file and does a find-replace changing temp back to xsl.
| Now, not being an expert in XSLT... I'm wondering if I'm 
| bending over backwards to do this.  Is there way in XSLT to
| have XSLT element outputs that don't affect the original
| XSLT file??
| 
| Thanks!
| 
| -------------------------------------
| Michael J. Hudson
| Software/Framework Engineer
| mhudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| 
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