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Subject:
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Merging 2 Xml docs
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Posted By:
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nkuar
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Post Date:
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12/8/2005 2:23:43 AM
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Hi all,
i need to merge two xml documents(can be any two having the same structure). Since I am pretty new to xslt I cannot figure out I can possibly generalise the case for a node containing any number of child nodes. would deeply appreciate any help..
Regards,
Neeraj
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Reply By:
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mhkay
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Reply Date:
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12/8/2005 3:54:35 AM
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You need to explain what you mean by merge. If you can't write a specification, try giving a few examples of what you want to achieve. For example, what would be the result of merging the two documents
<a/>
and
<b/>
?
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference
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Reply By:
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nkuar
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Reply Date:
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12/8/2005 4:15:32 AM
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ya sure, giving two example documents:
1.xml***************************************************************************
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<catalog>
<book id="bk101">
<author>
<firstname>Gambardella</firstname>
<secondname>Matthew</secondname>
</author>
<title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
</book>
</catalog>
****************************************************************************
2.xml***********************************************************************
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<catalog>
<book id="bk102">
<author>
<firstname>Jeanette</firstname>
<secondname>Dasha</secondname>
</author>
<title>Quack the Duck</title>
</book>
</catalog>
***************************************************************************
result.xml*****************************************************************
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<catalog>
<book id="bk101">
<author>
<firstname>Gambardella</firstname>
<secondname>Matthew</secondname>
</author>
<title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
</book>
<book id="bk102">
<author>
<firstname>Jeanette</firstname>
<secondname>Dasha</secondname>
</author>
<title>Quack the Duck</title>
</book>
</catalog>
***************************************************************
Please note that I want to do this for any 2 xml docs and not the ones presented above. So the tags and number of nodes,child and sibling may vary...
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Reply By:
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mhkay
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Reply Date:
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12/8/2005 4:22:15 AM
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OK, you've given one example, where the two documents use the same element names for the outermost element. Now please say what should happen if the two input documents are <a/> and <b/>.
You can solve your given example with:
<xsl:template match="/*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="*"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="document('two.xml')/*/*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
But I've no idea whether this solves your general requirement, because you haven't explained the general requirement.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference
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