RE: newbie: merging XML files using XSLT

Assuming that you mistyped and meant "Is there a way to use an existing xml file as input for a XSL transformation ...", you can merge them all in one transformation by opening the five files using the document() function or you could transform them in a sequential, additive fashion by pipelining the transformations. You would not use the document() function in the first transform, but in subsequent transforms you would supply the just-transformed XML file as the input document and used the document() function (the name of which you could pass in as a command-line parameter) to open each of the other four files, one for each iteration of the pipeline. Does this only make sense to me?

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From:     "Holk, David A" <david_a_holk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent:     Tue, 29 Apr 2003 13:47:37 -0400
To:       "'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:   newbie: merging XML files using XSLT

I have five simple(flat) XML files that I need to aggregate into a single,
more complex xml file.

I am trying to avoid using DOM for performance reasons.

Is there a way to use and existing xml file as output for a XSL
transformation(essentially appending elements to an existing file)? 

Any insight or comments appreciated.

Dave


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