You could try passing in the content of the file as a string parameter, or
you could write a URIResolver that reads the non-XML file and puts it in an
XML wrapper. Or you could just write an extension function.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Cummings [mailto:cummings.james@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 01 December 2006 15:34
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Reading in non-XML file.
> 
> In XSLT1 is there a fairly straight-forward way of reading in 
> a non-XML file and then sending it as part of the output?
> 
> Say I have a file foo.txt containing:
> =====
> Foo
> foo
> blort
> =====
> and an XML file containing
> =====
> <a>
>   <b/>
> </a>
> =====
> 
> What I want to end up with is:
> 
> =====
> <a>
> <b-new>
> Foo
> foo
> blort
> <b-new>
> </a>
> =====
> 
> Basically, I think I'm asking for unparsed-text() for XSLT1?  
> Is there maybe an EXSLT extension or similar to do this?
> 
> thanks for any suggestions,
> -James
> 
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