Re: [xsl] XSLT Merge question

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

          <xsl:when test="action != ''">
             <xsl:apply-templates select="action"/>
          </xsl:when>


That says that if any element has an action child that has a string
value that is non empty then you do not copy the element but just
process the action.

I don't think you want that, I think you want all existing elements to
be copied so you want the xsl:copy on the outside of teh xsl:choose.
Or rather you don't want the xsl:choose at all, you just want teh
standard identity template there, and then have one extra template for
actions that pulls in your elements (not tags, tags are
something else) from the external file.

<xsl:when test="action != ''">
  only works because of the white space used for indenting
<action>
 <a/>
 <b/>
</action>

is true for that test as its string value is a few newlines and spaces,
but if your stylesheet had xsl:strip-space (or used microsoft's parser)
or looked like
<action><a/><b/></action>
then the string value of action would be empty and so that  test would fail.



 <xsl:variable name="pathvalue"><xsl:value-of select="@path"
/></xsl:variable>

Almost never do that it can be slow and expensive, it generates a reult
tree fragment that has a text node with the string value of teh
attribute.  You just want

 <xsl:variable name="pathvalue" select="@path"/>

which has the attribute directly (what you have should work though)



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