How can I write an XSLT that will recursively include other files?

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Published on 2010-05-25T18:19:44Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 18:21 UTC
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Let's say I have a series of xml files in this format:

A.xml:

<page>
    <header>Page A</header>
    <content>blAh blAh blAh</content>
</page>

B.xml:

<page also-include="A.xml">
    <header>Page B</header>
    <content>Blah Blah Blah</content>
</page>

Using this XSLT:

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:template match="/page">
        <h1>
            <xsl:value-of select="header" />
        </h1>
        <p>
            <xsl:value-of select="content" />
        </p>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I can turn A.xml into this:

<h1>
    Page A
</h1>
<p>
    blAh blAh blAh
</p>

But how would I make it also turn B.xml into this?

<h1>
    Page B
</h1>
<p>
    Blah Blah Blah
</p>
<p>
    blAh blAh blAh
</p>

I know that I need to use document(concat(@also-include,'.xml')) somewhere, but I'm not sure where.


Oh, and the catch is, I need this to still work if B were to be included in a third file, C.xml.

Any idea as to how to do this?

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