Subject: Re: [xsl] MERGING 2 XML DOCS WITH dom4j parser From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 01:45:49 -0700 (MST) |
Lea Allison wrote: > does anyone know how I can merge two XML files together (one on top of the > other) using the dom4j parser so that my xsl transformation will read it as > a single XML document? Is it really necessary to do it at the XML parsing level? There is a requirement that an XML document contain just a single element at the top level, so it is impossible to create a well-formed document that is the composite of two other well-formed documents, unless you wrap the whole thing in a dummy element. I don't think this is really what you want. If all you want to do is use 2 source documents in your transformation, use XSLT's document function. For example, to get the union of root nodes from the main source tree and another doc: <xsl:variable name="bothDocs" select="/|document('otherdoc.xml')"/> Then you can refer to $bothDocs/path/to/some/nodes. The initial slash is the root node of the main source tree; "|" means union of two node-sets, and the document() call returns the root node of otherdoc.xml. You can, of course, use the document() function separately to access just that document's node tree. - Mike ____________________________________________________________________________ mike j. brown | xml/xslt: http://skew.org/xml/ denver/boulder, colorado, usa | personal: http://hyperreal.org/~mike/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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