Re: Recursive expansion

[Scott Penrose]

Well I have answered my own question... mostly




<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
        version="1.0"
        xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>
  <xsl:output
    method = "xml"
    indent = "yes"
    />

  <xsl:template match="object">
        <xsl:if test="@href">
                <xsl:apply-templates select="document(@href)"/>
        </xsl:if>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>






Now you go directly to news.rss and it has

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="rss2htmlfragment.xsl" ?>

correctly being executed and outputing the format I want.









Any advice from the experts on the list :-)



Thanks

Scott

Here is a simple stylesheet to do expansion via document() with one problem... This works perfectly for including other XML documents, however these documents are not themselves executed through their own templates first. Let us say that we have our first XML file being an index page, the embedded (object) second page is a RSS news feed, well that would need to go through "rss2htmlfragment.xsl" first. But now I call it with the document() call in the above style sheet it just grabs the original XML. Is there some way in XSL or AxKit that I can get it to go back through Apache rather than a local xml file - ala document. The reason of course is that I might ask for, instead of XML, a URL that implements AxKit::Provider::RDBMS or other content generation provider. Now it occurs to me that all I really have to do is write a simple Taglib which implements object, calling back into apache - thus any URL will do, it could even be a non-AxKit document producing the XML. Although this is technically not very hard I am concerned that it might be slow and not really the right thing to do. BTW. Is this a development question or a user question. I get the impression that the dev list is for development of AxKit itself, where as I am simply using AxKit.

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