XSL 2.0 xsl:result-document and xsl:output

Hi!

In the following draft version of XSL 2.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#element-output

there is this instruction:

<!-- Category: instruction -->
<xsl:result-document
  format = qname
  href = { uri-reference }
  type-information = "strict" | "lax" | "preserve" | "none">
  <!-- Content: content-constructor -->
</xsl:result-document>

and

<!-- Category: declaration -->
<xsl:output
  name = qname
  method = "xml" | "html" | "xhtml" | "text" | qname-but-not-ncname
  version = nmtoken
  encoding = string
  omit-xml-declaration = "yes" | "no"
  standalone = "yes" | "no"
  doctype-public = string
  doctype-system = string
  cdata-section-elements = qnames
  escape-uri-attributes = "yes" | "no"
  include-content-type = "yes" | "no"
  indent = "yes" | "no"
  media-type = string
  normalize-unicode = "yes" | "no" />


In my opinion there should be something that instructs the
processor to overwrite or concatenate the result to external file.
(Sorry about my Mika Häkkinen english).

The example usage of this instruction:


<xsl:stylesheet
	version="2.0"
	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
	xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<xsl:output name="log" version="2.0" method="xml" indent="yes"
doctype-system="example"
            doctype-public="example"/>

<xsl:output name="content" method="html" indent="no"
doctype-system="example"
            doctype-public="example"/>/>

<xsl:template match="/">

<!-- write this to the content -->
<xsl:result-document href="content.html"
         format="content" type-information="none">

 <xsl:value-of select = "translate('jarkko','j','J')" />
</xsl:result-document>

<!-- write this to the log -->
    <xsl:result-document href="log.xml"
         format="log" type-information="none">
	    <logElement>Initiated translate function</logElement>

// but there is noway to say that the element should overwrite the
// existing content in the log.xml or neither is there option to say that
// the element should be written after existing content in log.xml

    </xsl:result-document>
<!-- write this to the content -->
<xsl:result-document href="content.html"
         format="content" type-information="none">

....do other stuff.....

  <xsl:value-of select = "$foo" />
</xsl:result-document>

  <xsl:result-document format="xml" href="log.xml">
                <logElement>Called variable foo</logElement>
  </xsl:result-document>

// so this <logelement> should also be written to the log.xml file
// after the previous one.

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Opinions?

Cheers,
Jarkko


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