RE: Merging two documents

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 99/09/13 19:38 -0700, Earl Bingham wrote:
> I would be really interested in how this is implemented
> with examples!
...
> On Behalf Of Terris
> Sent:   Monday, September 13, 1999 6:24 PM
> To:     xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:        Merging two documents
>
> Can I use XSLT to do this?
>
> I want to add part of an XML document to another
> XML document.

A working example using XT-19990813 is below.

I hope this helps.

........ Ken

p.s. note that your ID attribute values don't match the Name production 
according to XML REC 1.0 Section 3.3.1, but since the instance isn't being 
validated, there is no complaint from the software.

T:\ftemp>type doc1.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE BookSet [
<!ATTLIST Book id ID #IMPLIED>
]>
<BookSet>
  <Book id="1"><Name>The wizard of OZ</Name></Book>
  <Book id="2"><Name>Java Servlet Programming</Name></Book>
  <Book id="3"><Name>John Coltrane Rage</Name></Book>
</BookSet>

T:\ftemp>type doc2.xml
<BookList>
   <Book id="1"/>
   <Book id="2"/>
</BookList>

T:\ftemp>type list.xsl
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0";>

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

<xsl:param name="source" select="''"/>    <!--source of data-->

<xsl:template match="/BookList">        <!--document element-->
  <BookList>
    <xsl:for-each select="Book">
      <Book id="{@id}">
        <xsl:variable name="id" select="string(@id)"/>
           <!--note you cannot use document($source)/id($id)-->
        <xsl:for-each select="document($source)">
          <xsl:copy-of select="id($id)/*"/>
        </xsl:for-each>
      </Book>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </BookList>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

T:\ftemp>xt doc2.xml list.xsl result.xml source=doc1.xml

T:\ftemp>type result.xml
<BookList>
<Book id="1">
<Name>The wizard of OZ</Name>
</Book>
<Book id="2">
<Name>Java Servlet Programming</Name>
</Book>
</BookList>

T:\ftemp>



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