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XSLT - merging two not opened files

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start by opening merge_external.zip and reproducing the three cases described: an opened file, a new file with the MRU list intact, and a new file after removing its first entry. Trace how XmlNotepad selects the transformation output path, then confirm the intended behavior and ensure the result is consistent or clearly documented.

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Description

The common usage of XSLT is to open an XML and to apply an XSLT to the opened file.

Now I played around with an XSLT which uses (two) external, not opened XML (a.xml and b.xml) and "merges" them. In common, it works, but I don't understand the default output-path of the transformation. There are some possible situations for an output-path

  • I open "some.xml" and apply the XSLT: it seem to use the path of "some.xml"
  • I press "New file" and apply the XSLT: it seem to use the path of the first file in the "MRU-list", on top right
  • I press "New file", delete the first entry in the MRU-list and apply the XSLT: it seem to use the path of the XSLT

What's the intended behaviour?

merge_external.zip

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