Re: Keys across multilple input files

[Jeni Tennison <Jeni dot Tennison at epistemics dot co dot uk>]

Ann Marie,

>I tried your solution without much success.  The stylesheet runs without
error but does not generate 
>ancestor or descendant classes. I formatted the filelist.xml as you did in
your example. and defined 
>the documents variable:
>
><xsl:variable name="documents"
select="document('filelist.xml')/documents/doc/@href" />. 
>
>I'm not sure what I'm missing.

I think what you're missing is that this isn't equivalent to the select
expression that I used in my example.  I used:

<xsl:variable name="documents" select="document(/documents/doc/@href)" />

In this, $documents is assigned to *the result of the document() function
being called on* the node list that holds the 'href' attributes of all the
'doc' elements that are children of the 'documents' document element in the
input XML.

In yours, $documents is assigned to the node list that holds the 'href'
attributes of all the 'doc' elements that are children of the 'documents'
document element in 'filelist.xml'.  You need to apply the document()
function to that list, i.e.:

<xsl:variable name="documents" 
  select="document(document('filelist.xml')/documents/doc/@href)" />

Try that and see if it works.  I'm sorry that I didn't explain this in
detail first time round.

Cheers,

Jeni

Dr Jeni Tennison
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