Re: read/write in the same xml file

what i need is to know how much characters i have write in the output file
each time, because i want to make a table of contents like this:
paragraph1  begining  end
---------     ------    ----
paragraph i  ------     ----

the begining and the end  position are exprimed in characters.

so for this reason i want to use an extern file named compte.xml
which i will use in my stylesheet every time for knowing the position.

Wendell Piez a écrit :

> At 05:46 PM 6/9/2003, David wrote:
> > >  i think i need absolutely the same file,
> >then XSLT is not your language of choice. You need a language tha allows
> >updaing of in place XML trees.
>
> I don't see why the OP doesn't simply do (apologies for the archaic shell
> language):
>
> copy file.xml input.xml
> xslt -in input.xml -xsl stylesheet.xsl -out file.xml
> del input.xml
>
> though if he's smart he's also going to back himself up....
>
> In any case, nowhere in this thread today has it been explained why the
> output needs to be the same *file* as the input, as opposed to merely
> another file with the same *name* as the input file. (Which it would be in
> any case, no matter how he did it.)
>
> Cheers,
> Wendell
>
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