Re: Subject: creating a node-set at run-time

<employeeRefs>
   <employeeDoc href="http://www.microsoft.com/employees/employeeList.xml"/>
   <employeeDoc href="localEmployees1.xml"/>
   <employeeDoc href="localEmployees2.xml"/>
</employeeRefs>

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
    <employees>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="//employeeDoc"/>
    </employees>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="employeeDoc">
    <xsl:copy-of select="document(@href)//employee"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Looks like exactly what you want to do :-)
Cheers,
Neil Smith.

Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 21:45:48 -0600
From: "Shea, Michael" <Michael_Shea@xxxxxxx>
Subject:  creating a node-set at run-time

Hi everyone,

We have this xml as our input document:

<list>
    <item ref="item1.xml"/>
    <item ref="item2.xml"/>
    <item ref="item3.xml"/>
    <item ref="item4.xml"/>
</list>

We want to go through each of the item elements and using
the document function, load each item?.xml file and check
a specific attribute in the root node of that loaded document
to see if it matches a certain value. If it does match we want
to add the value of the ref attribute to a node-set.  We want
to have a variable to which this node-set is assigned, so we
can do some processing on it at a later time (we want to run
a diff on it against another node-set amongst other things).

Basically this is like storing items into a variable (eg
var = var + new_item), but as we know, you can't reassign values
to a variable.

So can this be done using XSLT?  I was trying to come up with a
recursive algorithm to do this, but am not sure how.

Thanks in advance.

Mike.

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