Re: [xsl] How to duplicate an entire subtree

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2008-12-27 01:17 +0100, nick public wrote:
> I'm using an XSL processor ver. 1 by Microsoft

I'm using Microsoft in the work below, and it doesn't preserve the 
input text nodes.

> and I have the
> following URGENT problem.
> I need to produce an XML output containing the duplication of a (very
> complex) node; not just the text elements but element name and
> attribute(s) too.

Use <xsl:copy-of/>

> An example can be this in which I want to duplicate the <book> node and subs:
> ...
> The output have to be like this:
> ...
> I tried this script (and several variants of it):
> ...
> The disconcerting thing is that I'm able to achieve just the text
> elements whitout the XML structure.

<xsl:copy-of preserves all nodes addressed, any attached nodes, and 
all descendants and their attached nodes.

> Have a look to the output:
> ...
> Who can help me, please?

I hope the example below helps.

. . . . . . . . Ken


t:\ftemp>type nick.xml
<catalog>
      <book id="bk101">
              <author>Gambardella, Matthew</author>
              <title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
              <genre>Computer</genre>
              <price>44.95</price>
              <publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date>
              <description>An in-depth look at creating applications
with XML.</description>
      </book>
</catalog>

t:\ftemp>call xslt-msxsl nick.xml nick.xsl nick.out

t:\ftemp>type nick.out
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<catalog>
<book id="bk101">
<author>Gambardella, Matthew</author>
<title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
<genre>Computer</genre>
<price>44.95</price>
<publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date>
<description>An in-depth look at creating applications
with XML.</description>
</book>
<book id="bk101">
<author>Gambardella, Matthew</author>
<title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
<genre>Computer</genre>
<price>44.95</price>
<publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date>
<description>An in-depth look at creating applications
with XML.</description>
</book>
</catalog>

t:\ftemp>type nick.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                version="1.0">

<xsl:output indent="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="book">
  <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
  <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="@*|node()"><!--identity for all other nodes-->
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


t:\ftemp>echo Done!
Done!



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