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Is it possible to insert elements into the stream being parsed by an xml.sax parser while it's parsing?  I would like to be able to merge bits of xml into a document while it's being parsed.  Merging is triggered by an element I'm calling 'include-xml' that indicates the location of an external xml document.  Presently, I'm using what's  essentially an identity transformation with xslt to produce a document
 derived from multiple sources (all same namespace; no additional transformations necessary), and then parsing that document.


<?xml version="1.0"?>

<root>
  <myns:transform-and-include src="otherdoc.xml" xsl="transfo.xslt"/>
</root>

--- Other document (otherdoc.xml)

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<name>mai</name>

--- transform (transfo.xslt)

...

<xsl:template match="name">

<firstname><xsl:value-of select="."/></firstname>

</xsl:template>

...

--- Result

Would be cool if reading in doc.xml would be equivalent to reading in

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<root>
  <firstname>mai</firstname>
</root>

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