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Re: Rebuild XML file and merge

• To: taco@s...
• Subject: Re: Rebuild XML file and merge
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:31:14 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <F3B0B7C5E8A65A479628B31C464F95B901B791@S...>(taco@s...)
• References: <F3B0B7C5E8A65A479628B31C464F95B901B791@S...>

This isn't really an xml-dev question, more xsl-list, but anyway...


  select="document('C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\development\shelco_company_registra
  tion_form\xml\field.xml')/root"/>

document takes a URI not a windows file path so that should be

select="document('file:///C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/development/shelco_company_registration_form/xml/field.xml')/root"/>

You don't want to do this:

      <xsl:template match="*">
            <xsl:if test="name() = 'field'">
                 <testing />
                      <xsl:apply-templates ***** call the field template!!

Firstly testing with name() is unsafe (if you are using namespaces) and
probably inefficient you would use test="self::field" to test for a
field element but this is exactly what teh xslt processor does when it
is matching templates there is no need to re-implement this with if
tests at the xsl level.

            <xsl:element name="{name()}">
easier to use <xsl:copy here

               <xsl:for-each select="@*">
                    <xsl:attribute name="{name()}">
                         <xsl:value-of select="."/>
                    </xsl:attribute>
               </xsl:for-each>


That is <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>


So you just need

<xsl:template match="*">
 <xsl:copy>
       <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
       <xsl:apply-templates />
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

 
This template will fire for all elements except field, your field
template will be used for field elements as that has a higher default
priority.

David

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