Subject: RE: [xsl] Conditional document merge From: TSchutzerWeissmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 17:16:49 +0100 |
Hello Peter, Peter wrote: -------------------------------- I've got a more or less classic problem of merging two XML documents. The gotcha's in this case are as follows: 1) document A is guaranteed to contain all required nodes, and will include some that are not needed, but the order of the nodes may be out of order. 2) document B man not contain all required nodes, if it is missing any, some may be flagged as being mandatory in document A, others may be optional and will not be included in the output. Document B will have all nodes in the required order, any missing nodes can be substituted immediately following any previous match. Document B will contain attributes that override any from document A. ... --------------------------------- Peter, I think the order / structure is the fundamental aspect of your output document, and it seems wierd that one of your documents (A) has all the required elements but not necessarily the order while the other (B) has the order but not necessarily all the elements - if (B) doesn't have all the elements, how can it have the entire order? If (as your example suggests) the order is implicit in the data then it would make sense to use A as the basis of the merge, sort on this implicit order, and use B as a kind of element-mask. But maybe I've missed something? Tom Weissmann XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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