XSL version of iw_ostream

We're currently trying to migrate some of our legacy Perl templates into XSL templates. For most cases I've found XSL alternatives for a lot of the stuff we had previously done in Perl, but the one exception is "iw_ostream".

For better or worse, our templates sometimes need to create multiple output files. For example: "internal" and "external" versions of a web page that have slightly different content. We had previously solved this by using iw_ostream.

Does anyone have a suggestion about what we could do in place of that in the world of XSL?

Thanks for your help!

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nipper

Never tried it, but a google search of xsl redirect output may help

dmruczek

Thanks nipper. That was just the push I needed, I think. Here was what I came up with:

I added this at the top of my XSL file:


extension-element-prefixes="redirect"
xmlns:redirect="org.apache.xalan.xslt.extensions.Redirect"

And then I was able to do the following:


<redirect:write file="Y:/default/main/path/to/my/file/redirected.txt" method="text">
   <xsl:text>Inside redirected.txt</xsl:text>
</redirect:write>

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Rick Poulin

That's really neat and concise. Personally, I prefer writing a custom CSPTCompiler to avoid creating a dependency on the XSLTransformer implementation, and to have full control over what gets created where and how.. but your solution is so quick and easy, it's pretty darn tempting.