Hello all,
I have two flat xml documents, that I want to compare - let's call them A
and B.
I know only the root element of the two documents, all other elements are
unknown to me. Only thing is that there are no attributes in the two
documents - the elements might be empty or they might not - and that the
elements in a given document are unique in name.
The comparisson is both between the contents between two elements of the
same name, and finding the elements that are only in one of the documents.
Is there any way to achieve this?
I would imagine matching all elements in A, for each match looking for the
element in B. If match is found, then comparing the value, if no match is
found then marking this. Then I would go to B and look through all these
elements, marking all elements that are not in A.
The problem is, I don't know how to do this, using XSL.
I have a scetch here, with comments on all my problems. Any help would be
greatly appreciated:
<!-- Doing the transformation on A -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:transform version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:variable name="B" select="document('B.xml')"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="RootElement">
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="RootElement">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*"> <!-- Does this match all elements? -->
<!-- Here I would like to be able to search for the element with the
same name as the chosen one -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="$B/RootElement"/> <!-- Would this select
the RootElement of B? -->
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="$B/RootElement">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="$B/*"> <!-- Does this match the given elements in
document B? -->
<!-- And here I want to check whether the element exists in document A.
Will I need a variable for that document? And how would I do that, if
needed? -->
</xsl:template>
</xsl:transform>
I hope it is possible to do something like this.
Thanks!
Ragulf Pickaxe :)
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