XSL, XSLT frustration

[Badbetty]

Hello Readers

I need a solution stylesheet that will transform XML to XML. However I
want the stylesheet to output a complete stylesheet tag too i.e. <?
xsl:stylesheet version..... ? to the resultant XML document.
Any ideas please? I hope Ihave explained it all well enough.
Thank you
BB

[TOUDIdel]

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I need a solution stylesheet that will transform XML to XML. However I
want the stylesheet to output a complete stylesheet tag too i.e. <?
xsl:stylesheet version..... ? to the resultant XML document.
Any ideas please? I hope Ihave explained it all well enough.
Thank you
BB

show us what you tried to do. what problem exactly you have?
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[Ken Starks]

Badbetty wrote:

Hello Readers

I need a solution stylesheet that will transform XML to XML. However I
want the stylesheet to output a complete stylesheet tag too i.e. <?
xsl:stylesheet version..... ? to the resultant XML document.
Any ideas please? I hope Ihave explained it all well enough.
Thank you
BB

I expect you want the <xsl:pi>...</xsl:pielement.

Putting a stylesheet 'processing instruction' (not the same as an
opening tag) into the XML is not something I would do myself. I
prefer to allow for different outputs from the same source.

[Peter Flynn]

Ken Starks wrote:

Badbetty wrote:

>Hello Readers

I need a solution stylesheet that will transform XML to XML. However I
want the stylesheet to output a complete stylesheet tag too i.e. <?
xsl:stylesheet version..... ? to the resultant XML document.
Any ideas please? I hope Ihave explained it all well enough.
Thank you
BB

I expect you want the <xsl:pi>...</xsl:pielement.

Putting a stylesheet 'processing instruction' (not the same as an
opening tag) into the XML is not something I would do myself. I
prefer to allow for different outputs from the same source.

If you are controlling the document generation, then you will continue
to allow for this. Adding a stylesheet PI is simply a way to recommend
to the downstream user "if you want to see this the way I suggest, use
this stylesheet". You may in many cases be dealing with users who would
have no clue what to do with an XML file and may just blindly open it in
a browser, expecting it to do something meaningful...

///Peter
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[Ken Starks]

Peter Flynn wrote:

Ken Starks wrote:

>Badbetty wrote:

>>Hello Readers

I need a solution stylesheet that will transform XML to XML. However I
want the stylesheet to output a complete stylesheet tag too i.e. <?
xsl:stylesheet version..... ? to the resultant XML document.
Any ideas please? I hope Ihave explained it all well enough.
Thank you
BB

I expect you want the <xsl:pi>...</xsl:pielement.

Putting a stylesheet 'processing instruction' (not the same as an
opening tag) into the XML is not something I would do myself. I
prefer to allow for different outputs from the same source.

If you are controlling the document generation, then you will continue
to allow for this. Adding a stylesheet PI is simply a way to recommend
to the downstream user "if you want to see this the way I suggest, use
this stylesheet". You may in many cases be dealing with users who would
have no clue what to do with an XML file and may just blindly open it in
a browser, expecting it to do something meaningful...

///Peter

Thanks Peter. Yes, I thought of this about five minutes after sending
my response. I realised that I include a stylesheet PI quite regularly
in work for a charitable organisation sometimes work for.

They do indeed use the filing system not a server, and just click on it.