Re: Accessing 2 xml files in xsl

["Steve Muench" <smuench at us dot oracle dot com>]

These are the first ideas that came to mind.

Consider XML files a.xml, b.xml, and c.xml below

<!-- a.xml -->
<row>
  <ename>Steve</ename>
</row>

<!-- b.xml -->
<row>
  <ename>Francis</ename>
</row>

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- c.xml -->
<!DOCTYPE rowset [
  <!ENTITY a SYSTEM "a.xml">
  <!ENTITY b SYSTEM "b.xml">
]>
<rowset>
 &a;
 &b;
</rowset>

Then the stylesheet below illustrates two ways to
"process both a.xml and b.xml files" the first way
uses "c.xml" that includes a.xml and b.xml as external
entities to "glue" them together. The second uses the
XPath | operator to "or" the "a.xml" and "b.xml" docs
together. The result of doing:

$ oraxsl anything.xml stylesheetbelow.xsl

is:

Steve
Francis
Steve
Francis

Hope this gives some ideas...

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="document('c.xml')//rowset"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="  document('a.xml')//row
                                 | document('b.xml')//row"/>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="rowset">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="row"/>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="row">
    <xsl:value-of select="ename"/>
    <xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
_________________________________________________________
Steve Muench, Consulting Product Manager & XML Evangelist
Business Components for Java Development Team

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Selva, Francis" <Francis.Selva@purchasepro.com>
To: <xsl-list@mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 8:45 AM
Subject: RE: Accessing 2 xml files in xsl


| This is what I have.But how can it access from 2 different xml files?.Should
| I have to define all the different template matches then?.Is there a way I
| can just define one template like "/" and get all those values from both xml
| files?
| 
| Francis
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
|  
| > 
| > here was the example David gave.
| > ============================================
| > xsl:import is for importing stylesheets, ie for structuring your
| > stylesheet out of smaller modules. So is no use at all for 
| > what you want
| > to do.
| > 
| > if your countries are in countries.xml then just go
| > 
| > <xsl:apply-templates select="document('countries.xml')"/>
| > 
| > and write some templates to transform your file
| > into the list on your html.
| > 
| > David
| > ============================================
| > 
| > I hope this will partially redeem me :)
| > also the "Index by Date" link on the xsl-list site is bad
| > http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/archive/maillist.html
| > "Index by Thread" works though.
| > 
| > Noah
|  
| > 
| 
| 
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