Re: [xsl] Fwd: Combing two different documents

["andrew welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/17/06, Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Taking hint from Andrew's answer, I think you need a stylesheet
> something like this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>
>  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />
>
>  <xsl:variable name="doc2" select="document('file2.xml')" />
>
>  <xsl:template match="node() | @*">
>    <xsl:copy>
>      <xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*" />
>    </xsl:copy>
>  </xsl:template>
>
>  <xsl:template match="*[not(*)]">
>    <xsl:copy-of select="." />
>    <xsl:copy-of select="$doc2//*[not(*)]" />
>  </xsl:template>

The problem here, Mukul, is that for each leaf node in the source
document, all leaf nodes in $doc2 will be copied.  If you were to add
a few extra leaf nodes to the examples this would become apparent.

cheers
andrew