RE: Best way to merge two xml files

2004-04-30 Thread Carmona Perez, David

Hi,

Other ways is to use the xinclude transformer (you can generate dynamically the 
xincludes), or use the XSLT document function.  I have tried these methods, and all of 
them work ok.

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De: Tony Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Enviado el: viernes, 30 de abril de 2004 6:22
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Asunto: Re: Best way to merge two xml files



Hi David,
Check out cinclude.
We have a documentation application that combines documents from
multiple sources.
Eg we have a primary, high level description document that can reference
any number of subordinate process description documents. Each of these
process descriptions can reference any number of module level
description documents which themselves can reference step level
documents. We throw the whole lot together using cinclude.
Our relevent sitemap chunk looks like this:

map:when test=pdf   
map:generate type=file
src=webdav://localhost:8080/slide/files/xml/{request-param:fileName}
label=src/

map:transform src=xsl/cinclude_identity_featureLink.xsl label=cinc1 /
map:transform type=cinclude/ 
 
map:transform src=xsl/cinclude_identity_featureLink.xsl label=cinc2 /
map:transform type=cinclude/  

map:transform src=xsl/cinclude_identity_featureLink.xsl label=cinc3 /
map:transform type=cinclude/  
  
map:transform src=xsl/modManualFO.xsl label=fop/
 
!-- This stylesheet makes image URLs absolute, so that FOP can
display images. {realpath:/} returns the absolute path of the
context root.--
  
map:transform src=xsl/fix-imagelinks.xsl label=debug2
map:parameter name=ctxroot value={realpath:/}/
map:parameter name=dir value=/civica_help/images//
/map:transform 
map:serialize type=fo2pdf/
/map:when

You'll note there's a cinclude level for subordinate level of documentation.
Works like a charm!
Hope this helps.
Tony
David Swearingen wrote:

 (Subject line of my post may be misleading.)  What I'm trying to do
 is, when XSL processing of foo.xml is taking place, when a certain
 element is encountered in foo.xml, I want to insert content from
 someotherdocument.xml.
 
 It appears that the XSLT function document() does this.  Is this the
 best way?
 
 [I realize that aggregate sounds like it should do the trick, however,
 aggregate appears to require a priori knowledge of how many documents
 to aggregate, that is, when creating the sitemap you have to know in
 advance that you're going to do n aggregations.  In my case, however,
 I don't know how often I'm going to have to merge other xml documents
 when processing the main document.]
 
 Hope that made sense.
 David
 



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Best way to merge two xml files

2004-04-29 Thread David Swearingen
(Subject line of my post may be misleading.) What I'm trying to do is, when XSL processing of foo.xml is taking place, when a certain element is encountered in foo.xml, I want to insert content from someotherdocument.xml. 

It appears that the XSLT function document() does this. Is this the best way? 

[I realize that aggregate sounds like it should do the trick, however, aggregate appears to require a priori knowledge of how many documents to aggregate, that is, when creating the sitemap you have to know in advance that you're going to don aggregations. In my case, however, I don't know how often I'm going to have to merge other xml documents when processing the main document.]

Hope that made sense.
David