> My objective is to use the xsl stylesheet to replace text in a xml
> document without creating a new document.

An XSLT processor produces a result tree from a source tree. The source tree
is immutable. It would be possible in principle for the serialized result
file to overwrite the original serialized input file, but I can't see a good
reason for wanting to do that, and many good reasons for not doing it.

Mike Kay


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