Suggestion for Redirect.java extension

[Johannes van der Merwe <jp...@iafrica.com>]

Hi all

I needed to have the redirect xalan extension open files in append mode as
well, so that multiple stylesheet templates could append output to the same
file. This was achieved by recompiling the xalan jar with the modified
Redirect.java, and by using the extension like:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
	xmlns:redirect="org.apache.xalan.xslt.extensions.Redirect"
    extension-element-prefixes="redirect"
	>

<xsl:variable name="myfile" select="concat("whatever",'.','txt')"/>

<redirect:open select="$myfile" mkdirs="true" append="true"/>
<redirect:write select="$myfile">
....whatever....
</redirect:write>
<redirect:close select="$myfile"/>

later writes to this file will not truncate the file first, then.

Any comments welcome.

Kind regards
Jo van der Merwe


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