You can possibly use the document function to bring in external document to 
an XSLT stylesheet and then extract data from each of them.
Without a small concrete example of what exactly you need it's hard to give 
more specific advice.

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Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
http://joe.fawcett.name
"Kass" <Kass@d...> wrote in message 
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> Martin,
>
> Thank you for your reply.
> Here is what I'm trying to do... hoping I can stay within the .xml format.
> That is why I'm in your forum, rather than PHP.  I'm trying to figure out 
> if
> it is possible to dynamically link parts of .xml nodes to a separate file 
> in
> the same directory, without disturbing the rest of the nodes in the .xml
> format.
>
> We have feeds offered directly off the site, but also via subscription 
> feed
> and subscription email feed via Feedburner (now with Google).  We have
> hundreds of subscribers  for the different venues, so I don't want to 
> disturb
> the .xml extension that Feedburner is set to if possible.
>
> Every week I use a Find / Replace to replace the <pubDate>, 
> <lastBuildDate>,
> the starting date (would be "April 3, 2009" below) and the week of date
> (would be "Week of April 3rd - April 9th" below).
>
> Then I also have some common feed <description> information that I have to
> open each feed and do a cut and paste and save.
>
> Not only is this redundant and time consuming, but more importantly, 
> leaves
> me open for mistakes.  So I'd like to do the common information mentioned
> above more dynamically.
> I've tried to figure out how to use dynamic linking in the parts of the 
> .xml
> feed files that would change weekly.... linking to a master file where I'd
> make the weekly changes necessary, but I've not had much success.
>
> Here are some samples, and again I thank you for your time and knowledge.
>
> The unique information for each feed I've replaced with UNIQUE FEED INFO.
>
> The common information I've replaced with COMMON FEED and put 
> between -------
>
> The actual feed that would be displayed would follow this format... I've
> reblocked and shortened the number of items for clarity.
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <rss version="2.0">
>
> <channel>
> <title>Title Here</title>
> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:00:00 CST</pubDate>
> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:00:00 CST</lastBuildDate>
> <description>Starting April 3, 2009 …UNIQUE FEED INFO...</description>
> <language>en-us</language>
> <link>https://domain.com/UNIQUE FEED INFO</link>
> <copyright>Copyright 2008, Company Name</copyright>
>
>
> <item>
> <title>Showing the Week of April 3rd - April 9th at....UNIQUE FEED
> INFO</title>
> <link>https://domain.com</link>
> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:00:00 CST</pubDate>
> <description>Features Starting April 3, 2009 for ..UNIQUE FEED
> INFO</description>
> </item>
>
> ---------------There would be several common items--------------
> <item>
> <title>COMMON FEED TITLE</title>
> <link>http://www.movietavern.com</link>
> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:00:00 CST</pubDate>
> <description>COMMON FEED DESCRIPTION</description>
> </item>
>
> ---------------There would be several common items--------------
> <item>
> <title>Showing the Week of April 3rd - April 9th</title>
> <link>http://www.domain.com/UNIQUE FEED INFO</link>
> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:00:00 CST</pubDate>
> <description>UNIQUE FEED INFO for the Week of April 3, 2009</description>
> </item>
>
> </channel>
> </rss>
>
> "Martin Honnen" wrote:
>
>> Kass wrote:
>>
>> > I have 25+ RSS feeds that have some unique information and some shared
>> > information.  I'd like to have a "master.xml" (.rss or some sort of 
>> > master)
>> > that is linked to a "feed.xml" whereby I can adjust the shared 
>> > information in
>> > the "master.xml" file and it will dynamically change the appropriate 
>> > nodes in
>> > the "feed.xml" file.
>> >
>> > I tried using php inside the feed.xml file to pull data from the 
>> > master.php
>> > file  ... no good.  I tried using xpath in the feed.xml file to pull 
>> > data
>> > from the master.xml file... still no luck.  Perhaps I don't have the 
>> > correct
>> > syntax.  I'm not getting errors, just no data feed.
>>
>> I think you need to show samples of those feeds to allow us to
>> understand in what way data is shared and what data exactly you want to
>> update.
>> And if you are looking for a PHP solution then there are better places
>> than microsoft.public.xml to ask for help.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
>> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
>>