Peter Flynn wrote:
> Stan R. wrote:
>> One more question if I may. From what I've gathered, usually you
>> include the XSLT template right into your main xml doc you're
>> working with, a la:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
>> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="test.xsl"?>
>
> If you want to try and have it rendered in the browser, yes.
> Or if you simply want to record for others the location of a
> stylesheet.

But if you want to use multiple style sheets for one xml, it maybe 
better to perhaps leave a simple comment <!-- for HTML, use 
test_html.xsl --> ... And just use an xslt processor (xsltproc.) I 
assume this would be a good way?

>> My question is, is it possible to have the main xml doc in one file
>> (say, main.xml), but have a seperate xml file for the transformations
>> (include both a XSLT and the main.xml document.)
>
> In theory, yes, but not practically.
>
>> This would seem to make more sense to me, as you would have one file
>> containing your xml data, and thne have seperate xml files, each
>> including the main.xml, but different XSLT files.
>
> But then you'd have three separate copies of your document to
> maintain. That way madness lies.

No no no, one main xml with the actual data/layout, and one dtd or xsd, 
and then seperate xsl files containing differnet templates for different 
things, which I've discovered xsltproc does a good job of. For instance:

$ xmllint --noout --schema test.xsd test.xml
test.xml validates

$ xsltproc -o test.html test_html.xsl test.xml
$ xsltproc -o test.foo  test_foo.xsl  test.xml
$ xsltproc -o test.bar  test_bar.xsl  test.xml
...

> Why not just put three xml-stylesheet Processing Instructions into one
> copy of main.xml? Browsers don't honour that, at the moment, AFAIK,
> despite having been asked to support variant stylesheets for the best
> part of a decade.
>
>> Say, you have one template for html output, and another for plain
>> text, and another for some other format.
>>
>> From everything I've found online thus far, it seem including xml
>> files in other xml files isn't a very clear topic, but it seems to
>> me it should be an essential part if you want to keep things
>> seperate and organized, unless I'm really missing something here.
>
> No-one has ever asked to do it. The alternative is to have your three
> stylesheets, but run them on a dummy 1-line XML file, and use the
> document('main.xml') function to reference your main document, so that
> it gets included for processing. In XLST2, you don't even need the
> dummy file.

How do you use the document('main.xml') ?

-- 
Stan