Re: [xsl] Adding element to xml snippet using xslt

[Nishi Bhonsle <nishi.bhonsle@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Kay wrote:

> > <xsl:template match="abc:configuration/drillOutDir">
> >   <xsl:element name="drillOutDir">
> >      <xsl:value-of select="abc:configuration/drillOutDir"/>
> >   </xsl:element>
> >   </xsl:template>
> >
> >
> > but that will not do anything unless you apply templates to the
> > drillOutDir element.
> >    
>
> I haven't seen the source document, but even if the above template is
> invoked, it will only do anything useful if there is a structure something
> like this:
>
> <abc:configuration>
>  <drillOutDir>
>    <abc:configuration>
>      <drillOutDir>
>
> (namespaces and all).
Hi:
Yes, apparently the source document on which this xslt is run does not 
contain the 'drillOutDir' element.

I have to migrate the nodes from fileA(source doc) and fileB (which is 
also a xml doc) to an output xml doc. The xslt is run on fileA in such a 
manner that all nodes from fileA are copied over(preserving their order) 
and the common nodes that are present in fileA as well as fileB are 
merged using the xslt and the output of the merge is written to the 
output file.

In this particular case, 'drillOutDir' is present in fileB only, which 
needs to be also present in the ouput file too. The 'started' element is 
present in fileA as well as fileB, but its version in fileB is newer and 
hence i need to get the started element from fileB in my output file.

FileA contains --
<abc:configuration 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";  
xsi:schemaLocation="http://oracle.com/
xmlns/abcst/configuration configuration.xsd" locale="en" >
<started status="true"></started>
<server></server>
....
</abc:configuration>
-----------------------------

FileB contains --

<abc:configuration xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; 
xsi:schemaLocation="http://oracle.com/ xmlns/abcst/configuration 
configuration.xsd" locale="en" >
<drillOutDir></drillOutDir>
<started status="true">This application was stopped.</started>
<server></server>
....
</abc:configuration>
------------------------------

Output file should contain --

<abc:configuration 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";  
xsi:schemaLocation="http://oracle.com/
xmlns/abcst/configuration configuration.xsd" locale="en" >
<drillOutDir></drillOutDir>
<started status="true">This application was stopped.</started>
<server></server>

....
</abc:configuration>

So, according to one of my earlier posts from yesterday, only if I 
include the 'drillOutDir' element node and the 'started' element node 
inside the template for the 'server' node, they get copied in the output 
file, but in that case, the 'started' node gets copied over empty 
without the 'status' attribute.
Even if I include 'drillOutDir' element node and the 'started' element 
node in the template of the 'abc:configuration' node or have a separate 
template for each one of them, they do not get copied in the output file.

Please let me know how I could modify xslt to get the output as seen in 
the output file above.

Thanks.

> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/