Split one XML file to multiple XML File with XSLT

Question

I have this XML in one file below

   
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Answer 1

With XSL 2.0:

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:for-each select="document/file">
            <xsl:result-document href="file{position()}.xml">
                <document>
                    <xsl:copy-of select="current()"/>
                </document>
            </xsl:result-document>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I tested this using Saxon, which supports XSLT 2.0, using the command below:

java -jar saxon9.jar -xsl:transform.xsl -s:input.xml

This command generates three files: file1.xml, file2.xml and file3.xml.

$ cat file1.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<document>
   <file> <!--File1.xml-->
    <content>content file 1</content>
  </file>
</document>