No file created using xsl:result-document

EastvanAxon · July 23rd, 2013, 05:59 AM

Dear all,

I don't understand why my script is correctly working, but fails to create the output file using the xsl:result-document tag.

Code:

<xsl:template match="/">
	<xsl:variable name="uri" select="concat($output-dir, '/',  '.xml')"/>

	<xsl:result-document href="$uri">
		<xsl:apply-templates select="$main-doc" mode="once" />
	</xsl:result-document>
</xsl:template>

$main-doc is a document-node() variable storing the original XML tree. I use that in order to avoid recalling the template several times (along with the attribute mode). I'm sure the script does what I want, because if I remove xsl:result-document, as showed below, I get the correct output on screen. But the problem is that no file is generated if I keep xsl:result-document.

Is there a way to use xsl:result-document and generate one single output file? (I know I could use the command line to set the output file, but for consistency with other scripts I need to use xsl:result-document)

PS: I'm using XSLT 2.0 and an interpreter that can manage it (I run other scripts generating multiple output files with xsl:result-document without any problems, the only difference is that in those cases I really generate multiple files by nesting xsl:result-document into a xsl:for-each and using "position()" to build the $uri)

Thanks in advance for your help!!!
EastvanAxon

Martin Honnen · July 23rd, 2013, 06:24 AM

Can you tell us exactly which XSLT 2.0 processor you use and post minimal but complete samples allowing us to reproduce the problem?

Do you really want to create an output file named e.g. "C:/dir/.xml"?

EastvanAxon · July 23rd, 2013, 06:29 AM

I'm using "Saxon 9.1.0.8J from Saxonica" the command line I use is "saxonb-xslt -ext:on ... "

No, I don't want to create "/home/user/dir/.xml"

I removed too much info, i.e. I want to create "/home/user/dir/file.xml"

Martin Honnen · July 23rd, 2013, 06:35 AM

The snippet with an 'xsl:template match="/" containing an 'xsl:result-document' is the right approach to create a single result document so based on that snippet I don't see any problems.
Run with the "-t" option to see which file Saxon created.

EastvanAxon · July 23rd, 2013, 06:49 AM

Thanks a lot! I discovered the problem:

I had to define a variable with the URI as string and then use it on href="{$uri}" instead of putting directly the string built with concat(...).

Indeed it was trying to write on /home/user/concat(...)

Thanks again for your help!!! -t option is very useful!