Re: multiple source...

> the problem is that the xml=>pdf renderer only accepts one input xml
> file...

What's your pdf renderer? Isn't there an option for creating TOC or table of
pictures automatically? FOP for example has these options.

> 2.use some xml + xsl magic to assemble one document from many xml files...

One possiblity is a 2-step-transformation:

1. Creating the huge xml-file from the little files via XSL.
2. Transforming this to XSL-FO.

or as you did it until now:

> table of pictures ... so i do something like <xsl:value-of
> select="count(//pic)" /> and this of course doesn't work because it won't
> parse the external files.....

<xsl:value-of select="count(document('filename')//pic)"/>

Regards,

Joerg

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