How to read plain text content with XSLT 1.0

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It is not possible for the input document to be plain text because the input to an XSLT 1.0 transformation must be well-formed XML.

Here are some alternative ways to access plain text in an XSLT transformation:

  • Use unparsed-text in XSLT 2.0.
  • Pass the plain text in via top-level parameters (xsl:param).
  • Preprocess the text file to turn it into a well-formed XML document.
  • Generate the XSLT file dynamically, possibly via a meta XSLT transformation, and include the plain text directly in the XSLT source. Then just use a dummy XML input file.
  • Reference the text file as an external entity in a wrapper XML
    document, and then process the wrapper XML document using XSLT.

Here’s an example of the external entity technique:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE wrapper [
<!ENTITY textFile SYSTEM "file.txt">
]>
<wrapper>&textFile;</wrapper>

(Note that this last option could be challenging given XSLT 1.0’s limited string processing abilities, but for some data, it may be viable.)

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