Oohhh... nice solution Wendell! It never occured to me.. this is EXCELLENT!!!

BTW...Rumor has it that you put on quite the show... in fact award
winning if I understand correctly? ... I've heard the title and am
DIEING to see the slides and demo!!!! Any chance of obtaining access
to the post-show replay?

Thanks for this little tidbit! If you were not aware I finally got one
of my sites, XSLTBlog.com, up and running (more to come very soon!)...
this is just the little tricks of the trade type thing that I feel
demands presence on the site... I hope you don't mind if I post this,
giving full credit of course!?

Congratulations on an obvious job well done at the XML conference!

Cheers!

<M:D/>


On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:31:56 -0500, Wendell Piez
<wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Depending on what's actually in the two-or-more concatenated XML documents
> in a single file, it may constitute a well-formed external parsed entity,
> and can be parsed as such.
> 
> That is, if we have in dox.xml (which does not parse as XML):
> 
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <doc>...</doc>
> <doc>...</doc>
> <doc>...</doc>
> 
> the entirety can be parsed if it is called into a shell or "wrapper"
> document like so:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE wrapper [
> <!ENTITY content SYSTEM "dox.xml">
> ]>
> <wrapper>
>   &content;
> </wrapper>
> 
> ... which can be parsed (and processed with XSLT, which could be used to
> split the pieces back out).
> 
> If there are XML declarations sprinkled throughout, as in
> 
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <doc>...</doc>
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <doc>...</doc>
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <doc>...</doc>
> 
> ... then you have to work a little harder. (Some less-than-conformant
> parsers may not care about those errant XML declarations, thinking they're
> processing instructions; but most will.) Pre-processing to remove or alter
> them would work, but if you could identify them dependably, you could as
> easily split the files at that point and not have the problem. (You could
> alter them to something innocuous like a PI, parse the file and then use
> XSLT to clean up the mess, but that would be embarrassing: I wouldn't
> announce it to the list if I were planning that.)
> 
> If the demarcators aren't XML declarations but really PIs:
> 
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <doc>...</doc>
> <?separator?>
> <doc>...</doc>
> <?separator?>
> <doc>...</doc>
> 
> then it would work to wrap the file into an entity.
> 
> That is, how hard you have to work very much depends on the particulars of
> the format of the concatenation.
> 
> Have we been told exactly those particulars?
> 
> Cheers,
> Wendell
> 
> 
>  At 03:58 PM 11/22/2004, M.D. wrote:
> >Two concatenated XML files (each being well formed in their own
> >regard) would equal one non-well-formed XML file so thats not going to
> >work for you either.  Who on earth is joining XML files and giving
> >them to you in such a format anyway?  I feel for you on this one...
> >that bites!
> 
> 
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