Re: XML Merge

>I've changed that to the following now:
><xsl:when test="action">
>    <xsl:apply-templates select="action"/>
></xsl:when>
>
>
>unless you also moved the xsl:copy outside that is still going to give
>you the problem that parents of action elements are not copied.
>I don'tthink you want the xsl:choose at all.

Thanks to Dave Carlise's help, I now have the merge working as I wanted
it too.   Dave, I did end up getting rid of the xsl:choose, I had in
the main template.

Anyway, I had to end up using a for loop to handle the output of the
forward elements the way I wanted too.  For those that are intersted
here is the completed XSLT.  Any way to shorten this or make it more
efficient would be appreciated.

This XSLT takes an struts-config.xml file, and merges it with an
external file that contains updates that need to be done to the action
elements and child forward elements.

XSLT Merge:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
          xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml"/>
   <xsl:template match="/">
      <xsl:apply-templates />
   </xsl:template>
   
   <xsl:template 
     match="*|@*|comment()|processing-instruction()|text()">
        <xsl:copy>
         <xsl:apply-templates
          select="*|@*|comment()|processing-instruction()|text()"/>
         </xsl:copy>
   </xsl:template>
   
   <xsl:template match="action-mappings/action">
      <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="@path =
document('struts-config_new_variables01.xml')//action/@path">
      <!-- Copy the value where @path = document()//action/@path -->
           <xsl:variable name="pathvalue" select="@path"/>
           <xsl:variable name="nodeset"
select="document('struts-config_new_variables01.xml')//action[@path =
$pathvalue]"/>
         <xsl:element name="action">
             <xsl:apply-templates select="$nodeset/@*"/>
             <xsl:apply-templates select="$nodeset/forward"/>
        <xsl:for-each select="./forward">
            <xsl:if test="not(@name = $nodeset/forward/@name)">
             <xsl:copy>
         <xsl:apply-templates
          select="*|@*|comment()|processing-instruction()|text()"/>
    </xsl:copy>
           </xsl:if>
        </xsl:for-each>
         </xsl:element>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
         <xsl:copy>
             <xsl:apply-templates
          select="*|@*|comment()|processing-instruction()|text()"/>
         </xsl:copy>

      </xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
   </xsl:template>
   
 <xsl:template match="action/forward">
     <xsl:copy>
         <xsl:apply-templates
          select="*|@*|comment()|processing-instruction()|text()"/>
    </xsl:copy>
   </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>




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