Re: [xsl] XSL to output new XML document with root node

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2006-05-01 21:48 -0500, Gary E. Daniels wrote:
> Hi.  I have an XSL sheet to extract certain data from an XML 
> document.  I use Saxon for the transform and have the output as 
> XML.  I need to have the outputted XML document to contain a root 
> node.  How do I code the XSL sheet to create the root node for the 
> XML output document?

All result documents have a root node ... it is the parent of the 
document element.  It has no name and it is the top of the node tree 
that represents the result document.  It has no reification in the 
syntax of the serialized result tree (if you choose to serialize the 
result tree).

Are you instead asking about creating a specific document element for 
the result document?

> The purpose is so I am able to run a different XSL transform on the 
> output XML document.  Thanks.

I think you will need to provide more information because your use of 
the terminology makes it difficult to answer the question as it is now posed.

In a transform, the result document begins with a root node.  If you 
add a single element child to that root and then only children and 
descendants of that element, then you are creating an XML document 
result.  If you add zero or more than one elements as children of the 
result tree root node, you are creating an external parsed general entity.

Can you rephrase your question with an example of what you have as 
input and what you want as output?  That may help us help you by 
better illustrating what you need to learn.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken


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