XSL: xform one XML file into multiple HTML files?

[Richard R.]

Given one XML file, is it possible in XSL to transform it into multiple HTML
files? I have a file I'd like to transform into an index page with links to
per-category pages. I haven't seen anything in the w3.org pages hinting at
this possibility, but maybe one of y'all knows a trick....

I expect that I'll have to use multiple XSL stylesheets and corral them with
a Perl script.

 

[Martin Honnen]

Given one XML file, is it possible in XSL to transform it into multiple HTML
files? I have a file I'd like to transform into an index page with links to
per-category pages. I haven't seen anything in the w3.org pages hinting at
this possibility, but maybe one of y'all knows a trick....

With XSLT 1.0 there is exactly one result document (well one result tree
that can then be serialized into one result document) but processors
like Saxon 6 (see http://saxon.sourceforge.net/) and others implement
extensions that allow you to create additional result trees/documents.
See
http://saxon.sourceforge.net/saxon6.5.3/xsl-elements.html#xsl:document
for Saxon's extension or check your processor's documentation.