Document -- XSL-- Document + Document --XSL-- Final Output

Question

I am trying to do the following in a java program using both the XSQL java api's and the XML Parser for Java v2.
1. Create a Document from a SQL query using XSQL
- OracleXMLQuery qry = new OracleXMLQuery(conn,selectStatement);
- Document doc = qry.getXMLDOM();
2. Transform the resultant Document with an XSL stylesheet to create a new Document or Doc Fragment
- I am having trouble with this as the XML Parser calls to the XSL Stylesheet processor require an XMLDocument rather than a Document. How do I get around this?
3. Merge the Document result of 2 above with a Document from another XSQL query.
- I plan to do this by passing a node of the (XML)Document from 2 to the second query.
4. Finally apply a stylsheet to the combined (XML)Document.
I would greatly appreciate any help or suggestions for other ways to accomplish this.
Thanks,
Chris

Answer 1

Maybe a dumb question, but is there anyway to use the database to join the information that you appear to be joining at the XML level? It would obviously be much faster if you can come up with the query to do this... Maybe the situation doesn't lend itself, but it's worth a think.