Re: [xsl] naive identity transform question

["Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

I suspect that your problem is you get the generated child but lose
the parent?   :o)

if so, use:
 <xsl:copy>
     <xsl:element
name="sourceDate"><xsl:text>0000-00-00</xsl:text></xsl:element>
 </xsl:copy>

You probably would also want to produce the child in the necessary
namespace... This is not done neither in your code nor in the code
above.


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On 11/20/06, Jon Crump <jjcrump@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm sure this is a very straightforward task, but I'm missing something
> fundamental about the identity transformation.
>
> I want to copy an xml file exactly except if nodeX lacks a childY write
> element Y.
>
> The consensus on the identity transform suggested something like this:
>
> xsl file identity.xsl
>
>   <xsl:template match="node()|@*">
>       <xsl:copy>
>           <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>       </xsl:copy>
>   </xsl:template>
>
> xsl file intended transformation.xsl
>
>   <xsl:import href="identity.xsl"/>
>
>   <xsl:template match="//snotes:SourceNote[not(snotes:sourceDate)]">
>       <xsl:element name="sourceDate"><xsl:text>0000-00-00</xsl:text></xsl:element>
>   </xsl:template>
>
> IE: copy all elements complete, except where //snotes:SourceNote has no
> snotes:sourceDate child. In that case, write a snotes:sourceDate element
> with the value 0000-00-00.
>
> Anyone willing to point out the obvious to the naive?