XSLT inserting a TXT file

Question

I am using XSLT to transform a XML file in to a HTML file.

I would like to insert a plain text file in to the HTML as part of the transform.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

You have a few options:

1. If you can surround the plain text in <text></text> tags, you may import it with the document() function. This works in XSLT1.0, and does not require another programming language.
2. If you cannot modify the source file, but you do have XSLT2.0, then you may do it using unparsed-text().
3. If you do not have XSLT2.0, but you are using Java, then you may be able to invoke a Java function. Microsoft platforms will probably offer similar functionality.