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In XSLT, how do I get the filepath of the xml file of a certain element if that xml file was included with xinclude?

I have these XML files:

master.xml (which uses XInclude to include child1.xml and child2.xml)
child1.xml
child2.xml

Both child1.xml and child2.xml contain a <section> element with some text.

In the XSLT transformation, I 'd want to add the name of the file the <section> element came from, so I get something like:

<section srcFile="child1.xml">Text from child 1.</section>
<section srcFile="child2.xml">Text from child 2.</section>

How do I retrieve the values child1.xml and child2.xml?

Solution

  • Unless you turn off that feature, all XInclude processors should add an @xml:base attribute with the URL of the included file. So you don't have to do anything, it should already be:

    <section xml:base="child1.xml">Text from child 1.</section>
<section xml:base="child2.xml">Text from child 2.</section>

    ( If you want, you can use XSLT to transform the @xml:base attr into @srcFile. )