readXSL: Read an XSL document as an XML document, substituting import...
In sckott/sxslt: R extension for libxslt

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This is a convenience function for treating an XSL document as an XML document so that we can process its contents directly, e.g. finding templates and parameters, using XPath expressions. (This is different from parsing the XSL document for use within XSL transformations. In that case, we use xsltParseStyleSheet).

This function optionally allows the caller to have xsl:import and xsl:include nodes be substituted by reading the referenced XSL files and having their contents inserted in place of the xsl:import/xsl:include nodes. This "flattens" the XSL document and makes querying its contents easier.

1	readXSL(doc, asText = !file.exists(doc), recursive = TRUE, base = character())

`doc`	the XSL document, either as file name or URL name (i.e. a character) or a parsed XSL document (via `xmlParse` and not `xsltParseStyleSheet`).
`asText`	a logical value that indicates if the `doc` value is XML itself or the name of an XML document, if it `doc` is a character string or vector.
`recursive`	a logical value indicating whether to process the xsl:import and xsl:include elements and replace these with the actual stylesheet contents to which they refer.
`base`	the base URL relative to which references to other XSL files in xsl:import and xsl:include nodes are resolved. Typically one does not need to specify this at the top-level call. It defaults to the source of the top-level XSL content, i.e. `doc`.

Currently, we replace the xsl:import and xsl:include nodes with the corresponding xsl:stylesheet node. In the future, we may replace the import/include nodes with the children of the stylesheet nodes.

An XMLInternalDocument being a native (C-level) object that represents the parsed XML document.

Duncan Temple Lang

xsltParseStyleSheet

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