Apply changes to more than one file

bcogney · March 6th, 2007, 01:20 PM

I am trying to apply changes to more than 50 XML files. They all use the same tags.
I need to add 3 lines after the tag </book> in all the xml files.

Any ideas will help.
Thanks.

bonekrusher · March 6th, 2007, 01:32 PM

use xslt.

mhkay · March 6th, 2007, 01:40 PM

In XSLT 2.0 (Saxon):

<xsl:template name="main">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="collection('file://c:/temp/?select=*.xml')"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:result-document href="{document-uri(.)}.out">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:result-document>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="book">
  <xsl:next-match/>
  new line 1
  new line 2
  new line 3
</xsl:template>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

bcogney · March 6th, 2007, 01:47 PM

Thanks Mike. This should make my chanegs a lot easier.
One question though, I have used applications like (OxygenXML) to transform one XML document, how can I use your style sheet to apply changes on all 50 files? Is there any way I can use a command line to make all the changes.

Thanks again,
Bill

mhkay · March 6th, 2007, 01:52 PM

I don't use Oxygen myself - it might need a bit of tweaking, e.g. I don't know if Oxygen allows you to enter a stylesheet at a named template. But it's easy enough to run from the command line.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

bcogney · March 6th, 2007, 02:01 PM

sorry Mike. But can you please at least tell me how to run in it using a command line. what would be the parameters? for example, a folder with all xml files.

bonekrusher · March 6th, 2007, 02:05 PM

Michael,

suppose I have a <date> element in about 300 XML files. How do I change the value of the <date>...

I know that I might need to do this. bcogney's question trigger this one.

Thanks,

mhkay · March 6th, 2007, 02:11 PM

java -jar saxon8.jar -it main stylesheet.xsl

More details at

http://www.saxonica.com/documentatio...mmandline.html

I set it up to read all files *.xml from a directory c:\temp, you will obviously want to change that. You'll probably want to change the calculation of an output file name in the xsl:result-document @href attribute - it was just a sketch for you to start with.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

mhkay · March 6th, 2007, 02:12 PM

>suppose I have a <date> element in about 300 XML files. How do I change the value of the <date>...

Sounds like exactly the same question to me. What part of the answer don't you understand?

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

bonekrusher · March 6th, 2007, 02:25 PM

Since I am not adding a lines but rather changing the value.. would it be:

Code:

<xsl:template match="date">
<xsl:text>2008-06-06</date>
</xsl:template>

or would it be

Code:

<xsl:template match="date">
  <xsl:next-match/>
2008-06-06
</xsl:template>

I am not sure...