Hi, I need to use multiple xmls and xsls.
One way which i know is import one of the xsls in the other.
But my doubt is how do i specify that xml1 to be processed by xsl1 and xml2 is to be processed by xsl2.

I use the following approach for processing.
java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -in xml1.xml -xsl xsl2.xsl -out greeting2.html.

My xsl2.xsl is as follows

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:import href="xsl1.xsl"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:apply-imports/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

But with the above approach, i dont know where to give my xml2.xml for processing.

Can anyone have any inputs, pls update me.

You don't explain how the different transformations relate to each other. If xml1 is processed using xsl1, and xml2 is processed using xsl2, then why isn't that done by two completely separate transformations?

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Hi,
Sorry about the confusion.
I need some lines from xml1 and xml2 to be combined in one output html.
Eg.

xml1.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<SOURCE name="store">
    <GROUP hidden="N" name="ReceiptStoreAddress">
        <PARAMETER final="N" hidden="N" name="emailAddress" type="STRING">
            <VALUE value="[email protected]"/>
        </PARAMETER>
    </GROUP>
    <GROUP hidden="N" name="MINOR">
        <PARAMETER final="N" hidden="N" name="MINOR" type="STRING">
            <VALUE value="RG:36000000000000:36999999999999"/>
        </PARAMETER>
    </GROUP>
 </SOURCE>

xml2.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<tender-line-item>
    <tender-code>CASH</tender-code>
    <line-item-amt>24.94</line-item-amt>
    <line-item-seq-no>2</line-item-seq-no>
    <type-code>TN</type-code>
</tender-line-item>

My output html should have all the lines from both xml1.xml and xml2.xml.
I will be using two different xsls.
Is there any better approach for the same, kindly clarify.

As xsl2.xsl imports xsl1.xsl you effectively have just one XSLT. To operate on more than one document at a time you can have one as your main input and read the other from within the transformation process using the document() function. Alternatively you could read all the files using the document() function and have you main input just specify where they are to be found.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

Since there's no overlap between the XML vocabulary used in the two input files you should be able simply to combine the two stylesheets using xsl:include or xsl:import. If there were an overlap, you could use modes.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Hi, Am not clear with this.
Am importing one of the xsls, xsl1.xsl in xsl2.xsl.
But how do i specify that xsl1.xsl should be used only for xml1.xml in xsl2.xsl.
Basically, how do i map xsl1.xsl and xml1.xml??
Pls help, am little confused here.

If the element name SOURCE appears only in xml1, then the template rule

<xsl:template match="SOURCE">

will only ever match an element in xml1, and if tender-line-item only appears in xml2, then

<xsl:template match="tender-line-item">

will only ever match an element in xml2. As I said before, if there were an overlap in the vocabulary of the two files then you could use modes.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference