Re: Add an element to the result xml document

> I need just of copy of the element <MessageID> following the source
> <MessageID> and </Message> following the source </MessageID>

<xsl:template match="MessageID">
   <xsl:copy>
     <xsl:copy>
     </xsl:copy>
   </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

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

Joerg,
Thanks for your timely reply.  I understand you technique but that puts an
entire duplicate<MessageID>...</MessageID> following the current
<MessageID>...</MessageID>
I need just of copy of the element <MessageID> following the source
<MessageID> and </Message> following the source </MessageID>
Sorry I wasn't very clear.
Lynda

-----Original Message-----
From: Joerg Heinicke [mailto:joerg.heinicke@xxxxxx]

Hello Lynda,

hmm, I are copying in the wrong way. From the root context you are copying everything, you should copy node by node. You can read at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#copying how identity transformation can look like:

<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
   <xsl:copy>
     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
   </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

Then you only need to add further template matching on <MessageID/> and say there, that you want to have it twice in the output:

<xsl:template match="MessageID">
   <xsl:copy>
     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
   </xsl:copy>
   <xsl:copy>
     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
   </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

Regards,

Joerg


LVanvleet@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I have sucessfully copied all the elements in source xml to result xml but

I also want duplicates of some elements. In the partial xml doc below I

want the result to contain two copies of the <MessageID> and </MessageID>
elements.

I am using this XSLT:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:transform version="1.0"
      xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

<!-- copy all the elements to the result document -->
<xsl:template match="/">
	<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="Order">
	<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="//ListOfMessageID/MessageID">
<!-- add an extra <MessageID> and </MessageID> element -->
<xsl:element name="MessageID"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:transform>

On a document that starts with the elements:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- Exostar xCBL 3.0 Order ICD -->
<Order>
	<OrderHeader>
		<OrderNumber>
			<BuyerOrderNumber>3</BuyerOrderNumber>
			<SellerOrderNumber/>
			<ListOfMessageID>
				<MessageID>
					<IDNumber/>
					<IDAssignedBy>
						<IDAssignedByCoded/>
						<IDAssignedByCodedOther/>
					</IDAssignedBy>
					<IDAssignedDate/>
				</MessageID>
			</ListOfMessageID>
		</OrderNumber>

Lynda Van Vleet