Hi,

Why not simply add your principal source content after stylesheet1 and 2
do their work?

best,
-Rob


On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 18:42 +0100, Garvin Riensche wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am currently thinking about the limitations of stylesheet 
> compositions. As far as I know stylesheets can run after another where 
> the subsequent one might work on the complete result of the precesding 
> one (using temporary trees).  I think it is impossible to let the second 
> stylesheet run only on the data the first one added to the source xml 
> without changing the stylesheets. Let me pose an example:
> 
> XML:
> <aaa>1</aaa>
> <aaa>2>/aaa>
> 
> Stylesheet1 just adds some more <aaa> to the source, so that the xml 
> after the transformation looks like:
> 
> <aaa>1</aaa>
> <aaa>2</aaa>
> <aaa>3</aaa>
> <aaa>4</aaa>
> 
> Stylesheet2 matches the "aaa" elements and applies some transformation, 
> e.g. an addition, plus one, so that the output would be:
> 
> <aaa>2</aaa>
> <aaa>3</aaa>
> <aaa>4</aaa>
> <aaa>5</aaa>
> 
> My question is the following: Is it possible, without changing 
> stylesheet1 or stylesheet2, to let stylesheet2 run only on the elements 
> stylesheet1 has added, so that the output would look like:
> 
> <aaa>1</aaa>
> <aaa>2</aaa>
> <aaa>4</aaa>
> <aaa>5</aaa>
> ?
> 
> If this is not possible, would this be something the XML community is 
> interested in?
> I think it would be nice to have some kind of operator that would tell 
> the second stylesheet if it should work on the complete result of the 
> first one or only on the added elements.
> 
> Has someone already done any research about the limitations of 
> stylesheet composition and proposed an improvement? Or is the XML 
> community just fine with current facilities of stylesheet composition?
> 
> regards,
> Garvin Riensche