Generating multi-part HTML with XSL?

[Peter Caspers]

Hi,

I have an XML-file out of which I generate a HTML-file with an XSL. It
seems that it is only possible to generate one single HTML-file and
not multiple files e.g. in order to distribute different chapters of a
book in their own *.html - files. Is that true or is there some way to
do that?

Thanks in advance! P.Caspers

[Johannes Koch]

Re: Generating multi-part HTML with XSL?

Peter Caspers wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I have an XML-file out of which I generate a HTML-file with an XSL. It
> seems that it is only possible to generate one single HTML-file and
> not multiple files e.g. in order to distribute different chapters of a
> book in their own *.html - files. Is that true[/color]

That is true for XSLT 1.0. It will probably change with XSLT 2.0
[color=blue]
> or is there some way to
> do that?[/color]

Some XSLT engines (e.g. Saxon, Xalan) have an extension mechanism to do
what you want. Have a look at your XSLT engine's documentation.
--
Johannes Koch
In te domine speravi; non confundar in aeternum.
(Te Deum, 4th cent.)

[Dimitre Novatchev]

Re: Generating multi-part HTML with XSL?


"Peter Caspers" <kpcaspers@web. de> wrote in message
news:5326b95.03 09290358.19ac09 2b@posting.goog le.com...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I have an XML-file out of which I generate a HTML-file with an XSL. It
> seems that it is only possible to generate one single HTML-file and
> not multiple files e.g. in order to distribute different chapters of a
> book in their own *.html - files. Is that true or is there some way to
> do that?[/color]

Read about the exsl:document extension element and use it with an XSLT
processor, which implements this.

http://www.exslt.org/exsl/elements/document/index.html

AFAIK Saxon, libxslt and .Net EXSLT implement exsl:document (the .Net
implementation by Oleg Tkachenko requires XHTML output instead of HTML).


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Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL