I found an XSLT solution recently using the built-in function document() to include an additional XML document into the current XML document.
Using the file lunch.xml with drink.xml I can show what is available for today's lunch menu.
file: lunch.xml
file: drink.xml
file: lunch.xsl
output:
Using the file lunch.xml with drink.xml I can show what is available for today's lunch menu.
file: lunch.xml
1 2 <food> 3 <item name="banana"/> 4 <item name="apple"/> 5 <item name="custard"/> 6 <item name="crisps"/> 7 </food>
file: drink.xml
1 2 <drinks> 3 <drink name="water"/> 4 <drink name="orange"/> 5 <drink name="lemonade"/> 6 <drink name="cream soda"/> 7 <drink name="tea"/> 8 <drink name="coffee"/> 9 <drink name="blackcurrant juice"/> 10 <drink name="ginger ale with lime"/> 11 </drinks>
file: lunch.xsl
1 2 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 3 <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> 4 5 <xsl:template match="food"> 6 <html> 7 <head><title>Food menu</title></head> 8 <body> 9 <h1>To eat</h1> 10 <ul> 11 <xsl:apply-templates select="item" /> 12 </ul> 13 <h1>To drink</h1> 14 <xsl:value-of select="document('drink.xml')/drinks/drink[2]/@name"/> 15 </body> 16 </html> 17 18 </xsl:template> 19 20 <xsl:template match="item"> 21 <li><xsl:value-of select="@name"/></li> 22 </xsl:template> 23 24 </xsl:stylesheet> 25
output:
1 2 <html><body> 3 <h1>To eat</h1> 4 <ul> 5 <li>banana</li> 6 <li>apple</li> 7 <li>custard</li> 8 <li>crisps</li> 9 </ul> 10 <h1>To drink</h1>orange</body></html>
