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Hi All, I'm trying to clone a nodeset and alter one or two of the element values in an attempt to save me having to rebuild all of them or copy them all over and add the new ones. So What I would like to do is "Copy" SomeBlock named "A" with all the 50+ child elements intact, but modify one or more random fields with updated values ----------------------------- SAMPLE INPUT ----------------------------- <wrapper> <SomeBlock name="A"> <SomeField name="A1">SomeValue1</SomeField> <SomeField name="A2">SomeValue2</SomeField> <SomeField name="A3">SomeValueA</SomeField> <SomeField name="A4">SomeValueB</SomeField> ...and about 50 more elements </SomeBlock> <SomeBlock name="B"> <SomeField name="A1">SomeValue2</SomeField> <SomeField name="A2">SomeValue1</SomeField> <SomeField name="A3">SomeValueF</SomeField> <SomeField name="A4">SomeValueE</SomeField> ...and about 50 more elements </SomeBlock> <SomeBlock name="C"> <SomeField name="A1">SomeValue2</SomeField> <SomeField name="A2">SomeValue1</SomeField> <SomeField name="A3">SomeValueF</SomeField> <SomeField name="A4">SomeValueE</SomeField> ...and about 50 more elements </SomeBlock> ...more SomeBlocks <actions> <action type="Update" ref="A"> <field name="A2">SomeValue9</Field> <field name="A4">SomeValueX</Field> </action> <action type="Update" ref="C"> <field name="A1">SomeValue5</Field> </action> </actions> </wrapper> ----------------------------- SAMPLE OUTPUT ----------------------------- The output of the XSLT would be as follows: <Results> <SomeBlock name="A"> <SomeField name="A1">SomeValue1</SomeField> <SomeField name="A2">SomeValue9</SomeField> <-- Updated <SomeField name="A3">SomeValueA</SomeField> <SomeField name="A4">SomeValueX</SomeField> <-- Updated ...and about 50 more elements </SomeBlock> <SomeBlock name="C"> <SomeField name="A1">SomeValue5</SomeField> <-- Updated <SomeField name="A2">SomeValue1</SomeField> <SomeField name="A3">SomeValueF</SomeField> <SomeField name="A4">SomeValueE</SomeField> ...and about 50 more elements </SomeBlock> </Results> I have played with copying the entire SomeBlock into a Variable, but I'm struggling to find a mechanism to updated any of the values without looping through all the of the elements and writing them out unless they are the Names in question and then writing my own element which just seems lengthy to me. Isn't there a way to do something similar to the following: <xsl:for-each select="/wrapper/actions/action"> <xsl:variable name="actionTtype" select="@type"> <xsl:variable name="blockName" select="@ref"> <xsl:variable name="tempSomeBlock"> <xsl:copy-of select="/wrapper/SomeBlock[@name='$blockName']" /> </xsl:variable> <xsl:for-each select="field"> <!-- Locate the SomeField named @name in $tempSomeBlock and update it's value to . of SomeField --> </xsl:for-each> <xsl:copy-of select="tempSomeBlock" /> </xsl:for-each> As you can see this isn't right and I was looking for a short sharp kick in the pants to point me in the right direction. Caveats - Obviously this is a watered down example which I think covers the area I am having trouble with. The values that will replace the existing one will come from various sources further down the document, not just within the action\field elements Any help or abuse greatly appreciated Al
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