Re: Joining Multiple XML using XPath API of XALAN

Hi All,

Thanks for all thoughts.
The discussion now boiled down to more specific
requirements.
I need to merge multiple in-memory DOM structures. I
only know a single way to merge the XMLs i.e. load the
xml file using document function and output it's value
in the appropriate place.

Is there any way to load the in-memory xml document in
XSL just like document function.
Writing a file and loading it using document function
doesn't seem to be a good idea in my case.

This is the reason I thought of using XPath API, where
I can get any part of the DOM and merge it to another
DOM.

Any suggestions????

Thanks
Dennis


--- Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just to clarify: The problem is that the problem
> description is 
> incomplete:
> 
> >I have to merge multiple XML that would come from
> >various sources. All the XML coming conform to the
> >same single Schema. The XML coming from various
> > sources will be merged and the merged xml will
> still
> >conform to that schema
> 
> There isn't an API for the concept of "merge" --
> because "merge" isn't 
> well defined. There are generally many ways to merge
> data to produce a new 
> document which will conform to the same schema, but
> the meaning of those 
> documents will differ. 
> 
> To take an HTML example, you can merge two tables
> into one by adding rows, 
> or adding columns, or combining values... sorted on
> any of the above or 
> unsorted, with repeated values kept or eliminated...
> Or maybe you intended 
> to put both tables into the output document as they
> stand, with or without 
> descriptive text assocated with them...
> 
> So you need to specify in detail what you mean by
> "merge". For that, you 
> need to do some programming -- either at a low level
> by hardcoding it, or 
> at a higher level by using a language such as XSLT,
> or in a more 
> specialized transcoding tool.
> 
> ______________________________________
> Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research
> 
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