Writing Multiple Documents

[he...@ascentialsoftware.com]

Hi,
We have a project in which we use the "redirect" features of Xalan-J
extensively for writing multiple documents from a single stylesheet. We are
considering using Xalan-C++ instead for performance reasons but we want to
keep changes in our XSLT sources to a minimum. The documentation is clear to
say there is no support for EXSLT elements, so, using exsl:document is not
an option. Is there any other way to do this using the standard Xalan
executable? Implementing an external function?

Thanks,
Hernando Borda

Re: Writing Multiple Documents

[da...@us.ibm.com]

Hi Hernando,

I recall earlier someone had an extension function that serialized a result
tree fragment to a file, so they structured their stylesheets to generate
RTFs.  However, that would take a significant amount of work, and is really
non-standard.

I've been saying for two years now that extension elements need to be
implemented, but have never had the time.  I guess I should just bit the
bullet and go for it.  However, I'm not sure I would choose to implement
the old Xalan-J redirect feature.  Rather, I'd target EXSLT and/or the XSLT
2.0 result-document element.

I don't have any timeframe for this, so I'm not sure you can really count
on it for your project.

Dave



                                                                                                                                                    
                      hernando.borda@ascentials                                                                                                     
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                      05/15/2003 08:36 AM               Subject: Writing Multiple Documents                                                         
                                                                                                                                                    



Hi,


We have a project in which we use the "redirect" features of Xalan-J
extensively for writing multiple documents from a single stylesheet. We are
considering using Xalan-C++ instead for performance reasons but we want to
keep changes in our XSLT sources to a minimum. The documentation is clear
to say there is no support for EXSLT elements, so, using exsl:document is
not an option. Is there any other way to do this using the standard Xalan
executable? Implementing an external function?


Thanks,


Hernando Borda