If the two stylesheets were developed independently, then I would run them
independently, as two separate transformations. There are many ways you can
control the pipeline: Java, XProc, xmlsh, Ant, or a simple shell script.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martynas Jusevicius [mailto:martynas.jusevicius@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 27 August 2009 16:48
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Pipelining 2 stylesheets
> 
> Hey list,
> 
> I want to pipeline 2 templates opendoc2xhtml.xsl (from 
> OpenOffice) and xhtml2epub.xsl (my own) into a single 
> opendoc2epub, that is, to pass the result of the first one 
> into the second one.
> As I understand, the common technique is to get the first 
> result into a variable, and then run the second 
> transformation on it (assuming XSLT 2).
> 
> But I have a problem with including the stylesheets. If i try 
> to xsl:include both templates and define a template for the 
> root node, I get a conflict, because opendoc2xhtml also has 
> one. And I don't want to add modes or anything to it because 
> it comes from an external source, but I still need to 
> override it somehow to put the result into a variable in the 
> first place.
> Is it where xsl:import is used? I tried importing 
> opendoc2xhtml.xsl as well and calling xsl:apply-imports from 
> the root template, but then only root children were processed.
> 
> Martynas
> semantic-web.dk