XSLT conditional include of external file

Question

I want to perform a conditional include in XSLT, but xsl:include is a top level element. You can only use xsl:if or xsl:choose inside of a template. Is there any kind of hac

Answer 1

This example is how I did a conditional use of an external file. I had the flag in the base XML that the XSL uses as a variable to help specify the name of the other file to pull into the template. Once that variable is defined as in my case I use it to pull other XML data into the generated output. The concat command forces the data together to give a file name.

So When I want info from the external XML file I use '$DOCUMENTNAME' for referencing the external data.