I need to create a script that will tell me what files a specific xsl file imports/includes and the path names to each. I am having trouble trying to figure out how to do this.

Someone recommended using perl, but I am not that familiar with either perl or xslt. I have played around a little with both, but I'm no expert.

I also found an xslt code snippet that claims to perform what I am looking for, but I don't know how I would run an xslt on another xslt. Can anyone help?

Thanks a bunch!

There's an example in my book that does this (XSLT, p537) and you can find the stylesheet as list-includes.xsl in the download files.

You can supply a stylesheet as input to a transformation in the same way as any other XML document. Why should it be any different?

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

Thanks a lot! I just got the book today and haven't had a chance to read through to that part yet.

I am assuming that passing a stylesheet as input would be like:

java -jar c:\saxon\saxon8.jar input.xsl list-includes.xsl

Does it matter if some of the paths are using entities? Will it display the absolute or relative paths? Unfortunately I can't try this out until I find out what we use as a processor on our unix system.

Thanks again for your help! :)

Not sure what you mean by "using entities". Entity references are expanded by the XML parser and XSLT only gets to see the document after entity expansion.

The stylesheet as written displays the relative paths. It's essentially a 1.0 stylesheet, but if you're using a 2.0 processor you can get the absolute URIs by using the document-uri() function.



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