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xpathxslt-2.0saxon

XSLT-2.0: Output to file

Using SaxonHE 9.7/XPath-2.0

Why is this identity template returning a "Cannot write more than one result document to the same URI" when it's output is sent to a file? Without xsl:result-document it sends it to the standard out as expected.

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">
    <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
        <xsl:result-document href="Output.xml">
            <xsl:copy>
                <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
            </xsl:copy>
        </xsl:result-document>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Solution

  • Use

    <xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:result-document href="Output.xml">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:result-document>
</xsl:template>

    plus the normal identity transformation template, that way the output created by the stylesheet goes to Output.xml. Your current code matches any node and for each matched node tries to open the same file, that is not allowed.