Re: Merging structure and content by own id with XSLT

Micheal, you're the man! Thanks!

That's exactly the type of answer I was hoping for. It lays the
foundation to a good solution. it's all I needed, thanks.

Cheers,
Jacobus

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I would start with a for-each-group that selects all the "data elements"
> from both files, using group-by="data_id". If there's only one item in the
> current-group() you can copy it unchanged. If there are two, they will be in
> population order so you know which is the old and which is the new. Then you
> just have to do some legwork to compare them. Attributes are easy because
> when you add two attributes with the same name to an element, the last one
> takes precedence. I haven't tried to work out what your rules on merging
> element content are.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Kay
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