Reading external document with non-XML text

Function unparsed-text() reads an external resource and returns its contents as a string. Please note the difference in the example between unparsed-text() and document() functions.

Errors caused by the function unparsed-text() are not recoverable. Function unparsed-text-available() can be used to make sure that an error will not occur.

XSLT

      <xsl:stylesheet
                  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                  version="2.0">
            <xsl:output  method="xml"
                        indent="yes"
                        omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

            <xsl:template  match="/aaa">
                  <available>
                        <xsl:value-of  select="unparsed-text-available('ext4.xml','utf-8')"/>
                  </available>
                  <xxx>
                        <xsl:copy-of  select="unparsed-text('ext4.xml','utf-8')"/>
                  </xxx>
                  <xxx>
                        <xsl:copy-of  select="document('ext4.xml')"/>
                  </xxx>
            </xsl:template>

      </xsl:stylesheet>

XML

<aaa/>

ext4.xml

Output

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