Re: reading a text file and putting out an xml file us

Thank you. I have saxon9 downloaded. But I am not sure how to run a
transformation on the command line for a text input.
Any help?

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx> wrote:
> a kusa wrote:
>
>> I have an input file which is a text file. My output should be an XML
>> file that conforms to a schema that I already have.
>>
>> How do I do this in XSLT2.0? Can I use unparsed-text() function? Are
>> there any examples that I can look at for this?
>
> An XSLT 2.0 processor should allow you to start processing with a named
> template so in your stylesheet you would write a named template e.g.
>  <xsl:template name="main">
>    <xsl:variable name="t1" select="unparsed-text('input.txt')"/>
>    <!-- now process t1 here perhaps by tokenizing -->
>  </xsl:template>
> then you would instruct the XSLT processor to start with template named
> "main" (e.g. option -it:main in Saxon or /n main with Altova I think).
>
>
>
> --
>
>        Martin Honnen
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