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The document() function allows me to merge multiple XML input documents. However, what if I need to merge text and HTML documents (and possibly other formats) into my output documents? Is there some way to do this? The specific use-case I'm encountering is the XML notes for a presentation on XSL itself. A slide may contain an XML document. This is straight-forward like this: <include href="compositions.xml"/> The style sheet replaces the <include> element with the named XML document compositions.xml. This also works for inserting an XSL style sheet into the output since XSL style sheets are well-formed XML document. However, suppose I want to insert the contents of a simple text file: <include href="compositions.txt"/> In this case document() doesn't succeed because compositions.txt is not well-formed HTML. A slightly more complicated case: suppose I want to insert the contents of a non-well-formed HTML file: <include href="compositions.html"/> It seems to me there should be a way to do this, though perhaps this is the province of the as-yet-unimplemented XLink spec. +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible (IDG Books, 1999) | | http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/books/bible/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764532367/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://metalab.unc.edu/javafaq/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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