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Subject: Re: [xsl] read/write in the same xml file
From: abbouh <abbouh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:25:24 +0000

is there some propositions?

abbouh a écrit :

> what i need is to know how much characters i have write in the output file
> each time, because i want to make a table of contents like this:
> paragraph1  begining  end
> ---------     ------    ----
> paragraph i  ------     ----
>
> the begining and the end  position are exprimed in characters.
>
> so for this reason i want to use an extern file named compte.xml
> which i will use in my stylesheet every time for knowing the position.
>
> Wendell Piez a écrit :
>
> > At 05:46 PM 6/9/2003, David wrote:
> > > >  i think i need absolutely the same file,
> > >then XSLT is not your language of choice. You need a language tha allows
> > >updaing of in place XML trees.
> >
> > I don't see why the OP doesn't simply do (apologies for the archaic shell
> > language):
> >
> > copy file.xml input.xml
> > xslt -in input.xml -xsl stylesheet.xsl -out file.xml
> > del input.xml
> >
> > though if he's smart he's also going to back himself up....
> >
> > In any case, nowhere in this thread today has it been explained why the
> > output needs to be the same *file* as the input, as opposed to merely
> > another file with the same *name* as the input file. (Which it would be in
> > any case, no matter how he did it.)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Wendell
> >
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