You can't append to result documents in this way: you have to write them in
a single go, just as you would if you were writing the data to a branch of
the primary tree. In fact, that's how you should think about it: you're in
effect writing a single tree and then lopping off some of the branches to
act as separate result trees in their own right. (If it worked any
differently, the content of the result trees would depend on order of
execution, which isn't defined).

So as with a single-output transformation, the rule is to structure your
stylesheet according to the structure of the output; your problem is
probably that you have designed it to match the structure of the input.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rahil [mailto:qamar_rahil@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 02 August 2005 14:48
> To: XSL List
> Subject: [xsl] appending to result-document
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have an xsl file which has two output formats. The first 
> one is .html 
> and the other is a named xml output. I am using the 
> <xsl:result-document> instruction for the xml output as such
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
> xmlns:saxon="http://saxon.sf.net/">
>     <xsl:output method="html"/>
>     <xsl:output name="log" method="xml" indent="yes"/>
> 
> The template where I have placed the <xsl:result-document> 
> instruction is:
> ----------------
> <xsl:template match="TR" mode="inner">
>         <xsl:copy>
>             <xsl:choose>
>                 <xsl:when test="..some test here">
>                          <TD>Some HTML output here !</TD>
>                    
>                     <xsl:result-document href="{$clsNm}.xml" 
> format="log" type-information="none">
>                         <Results>
>                             <Term><xsl:value-of 
> select="$clsNm"/></Term
>                         </Results>
>                     </xsl:result-document>
>                    .............
>     </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> ------------------
> 
> Now the <xsl:when> condition might be satisfied more than 
> once when the 
> <xsl:template> is called recursively. I dont want separate 
> .xml files in 
> <xsl:result-document>. In fact I want to append new <Text> element 
> results to a single .xml file.
> 
> The present output results in 3 files: (i) mainResult.html , (ii) 
> Log1.xml and (iii) Log2.xml
> 
> Log1.xml looks like this
> -------------
> <Results xmlns:saxon="http://saxon.sf.net/">
>    <Term>Log1</Term>
> </Results>
> 
> Log2.xml looks like this
> -------------
> <Results xmlns:saxon="http://saxon.sf.net/">
>    <Term>Log2</Term>
> </Results>
> 
> The output I want is two files: (i) mainResult.html , (ii) Log.xml
> -------------
> <Results xmlns:saxon="http://saxon.sf.net/">
>     <Term>Log1</Term>
>    <Term>Log2</Term>
> </Results>
> -----------------
> 
> How do I append xml tags in the log.xml file in the midst of general 
> .html output ?
> 
> Appreciate all help.
> 
> Thanks
> Rahil