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vsingr@gmail.com - 25 Nov 2005 17:53 GMT

Friends, Is it possible to generate a XML file using XSLT? If so can
Some one point me in the right direction as to how this can be
achieved?

Thanks
Sri

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Oliver Wong - 25 Nov 2005 18:14 GMT

> Friends, Is it possible to generate a XML file using XSLT? If so can
> Some one point me in the right direction as to how this can be
> achieved?

I haven't worked with XSLT in a while, but my understanding is that it
can produce any String output given a XML file as an input.

This tutorial gives an example of transforming an XML file into another
XML file: http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/xsl_languages.asp

- Oliver

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Oliver Wong - 25 Nov 2005 18:16 GMT

>> Friends, Is it possible to generate a XML file using XSLT? If so can
>> Some one point me in the right direction as to how this can be
>> achieved?
>
> I haven't worked with XSLT in a while, but my understanding is that it
> can produce any String output given a XML file as an input.

I just saw your other post which is older, and yet much clearer on the
requirements. XSLT, as far as I know, needs XML as input. If you don't have
an XML file to start with, you can't use XSLT.

- Oliver

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Malte - 25 Nov 2005 18:32 GMT

> Friends, Is it possible to generate a XML file using XSLT? If so can
> Some one point me in the right direction as to how this can be
> achieved?
>
> Thanks
> Sri

Bascially, you can have XSLT generate anything. But you have to start
with an XML input. This may be transformed into another XML file.

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Alan Krueger - 26 Nov 2005 01:47 GMT

> Friends, Is it possible to generate a XML file using XSLT? If so can
> Some one point me in the right direction as to how this can be
> achieved?

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#output

Note that the method attribute can be "xml".

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<outputDocument>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</outputDocument>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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