AW: no output files

Thx for your answers !

<xsl:output method="saxon:net.sf.saxon.event.Sink"/> works fine :)

cheers


Patrick Szabo
EPD / XSLT Konvertierung
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-----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Gesendet: Montag, 17. November 2008 14:57
An: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Betreff: RE:  no output files

There will always be at least one result tree, but its contents may be empty.
see 2.4:

<quote>
An implicit result tree is also created when the result sequence is empty,
provided that no xsl:result-document  instruction has been evaluated during
the course of the transformation. In this situation the implicit result tree
will consist of a document node with no children.
</quote>

But you don't have to serialize the result tree to a file. Try <xsl:output
method="saxon:net.sf.saxon.event.Sink"/>

Running a transformation for the sake of its side-effects is a risky strategy
- there's always a danger that the processor might optimize the whole thing
away. However, it's perfectly reasonable for example for a stylesheet to be
primarily performing data validation, and to produce as output a list of
validation errors which may in some (or most) cases be empty.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Szabo, Patrick (LNG-VIE) [mailto:patrick.szabo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 17 November 2008 13:45
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  no output files
>
> Hi,
>
> I4m using XSLT 2.0 and Saxon 9.
> Is it possible to do a transformation without creating outputfiles ?!
> Why ?!
> Well, the xsl doesn4t really change the files, it just uses it4s
> information.
>
> cheers
>
>
> Patrick Szabo
> EPD / XSLT Konvertierung
> Tel.: +43-1-534 52-1573
> Fax.: +43-1-534 52-1573
> patrick.szabo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> LexisNexis Verlag ARD Orac GmbH & Co KG Marxergasse 25, 1030 Wien FN
> 8333f, Handelsgericht Wien