RE: replacing values in file1 from file2

Hi,

> <file1>
>   <terms>
>     <source lang="english">
>       <term>dog</term>
>     </source>
>     <source lang="danish">
>       <term>dog</term>
>     </source>
>   </terms>
>   <terms>
>     <source lang="english">
>       <term>dog</term>
>     </source>
>     <source lang="danish">
>       <term>dog</term>
>     </source>
>   </terms>
> </file1>
> 
> <file2>
>   <tranlated>
>     <term lang="danish">hund</term>
>     <term lang="danish">bord</term>
>   </translated>
> </file2>
> 
> I've tried matching a nodeset in file1 using <..  
> match="//source[@lang='danish']/term"> seems fine. Then I've tried to 

With match patterns the leading // is not needed, just use

  <xsl:template match="source[@lang='danish']/term">

> copy-of the value from select="document('file2.xml')//term/text()" in 
> various ways. I get the first value only from the list 
> copied, but in all 
> the locations I wanted. How do I pass on the number of the 
> node in the first 
> nodeset to the nodeset selected from the second file. I tried 
> setting up a 
> variable using position() but couldn't get it to work.

If you've simplified your source, then I suppose you can't change the source to use proper keys, instead of relying on the position for a match. First you want to know your position in file1

    <xsl:variable name="position" select="count(../../preceding-sibling::terms)"/>

Then get the translated term

    <xsl:value-of select="document('file2.xml')//term[count(preceding-sibling::term) = $position]"/>

For performance you want to replace the // walking with file2/translated, and also you might want to consider using keys: just use the preceding term sibling count as the key.

Cheers,

Jarno - Melotron: Manchmal