Concatenating xml files

Question

I have several xml files, the names of which are stored in another xml file.

I want to use xsl to produce a summary of the combination of the xml files. I remember

Answer 1

Here is just a small example of what you could do:

file1.xml:

Text from file1

file2.xml:

Text from file2

index.xml:

file1.xml
file2.xml

summarize.xsl:

Applying the stylesheet to index.xml gives you:

Text from file1Text from file2

The trick is to load the different documents with the document function (extension function supported by almost all XSLT 1.0 processors), to output the contents as part of a variable body and then to convert the variable to a node-set for further processing.