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Subject: Re: [xsl] Merging Document Problem
From: Mike Trotman <mike.trotman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 19:28:45 +0100

Hi John.

Sorry - I didn't see your earlier message that included the namespace declaration.
Yes - you do get namespaces unless you exclude them.


I haven't done much with mixed documents which include different namespaces - but maybe if you declare the same namespace in your template and add it to the exclude-result-prefixes option it will get excluded.
I'm not sure of the technical details of what triggers / suppresses namespace propagation so can't be more help on that.



John Hamman wrote:


Thanks Mike, its working great. Only thing I got to figure out is that  a
namespace is being thrown in.

<instrument type="BreadCrumb" id="PageBreadCrumb"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Breadcrumb>
<Topic title="Home" link="/">
<Topic title="Services" link="/services">
<Topic title="Content Management" link="/services/content-management" /> </Topic>
</Topic>
</Breadcrumb>
</instrument>


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Trotman [mailto:mike.trotman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 1:58 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] Merging Document Problem


Using XSLT - the <xsl:copy/> and <xsl:copy-of/> elements should give you what you need.

So - using XSLT;
Assuming you are processing DocumentB.xml as current document - the following will construct you're combined <theater> element.


<xsl:template match='theater'>
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select='@*'/> <!-- this copies any attributes on <theater> - although you currently have none -->
<xsl:copy-of select='instrument'/>
<instruments>
<xsl:copy-of select='document("Breadcrumb.xml")/ensemble/theater/instrument'/>
</instruments>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>


John Hamman wrote:



Thanks Michael,
I don't see anything that begin with XML or at least it shouldn't. And I just want to copy/merge the document that is below (breadcrumb.xml)
To another xml document so that it's a DIRECT copy. Meaning I want it to


end


up looking the same.
So for example.
If Breadcrumb.xml looks like this
<ensemble>
	<theater>
		<instrument type="BreadCrumb" id="PageBreadCrumb">
			<!-- This App is the bread crumb of the page. -->
			<Breadcrumb>
				<Topic title="Home" link="/">
					<Topic title="Services"
link="/services">
						<Topic title="Content
Management" link="/services/content-management"/>
					</Topic>
				</Topic>
			</Breadcrumb>
		</instrument>
	</theater>
</ensemble>

And DocumentB.xml looks like this
<ensemble>
	<theater>
		<performance link="/Some/Link" topic="/services"
lang="en-US" title="My Music" ver="1.0" lastmod="6/30/2004T12:00:00:00">
			<!-- Page Info  -->
			<FriendlyName>Friendlyname here</FriendlyName>
			<Activate date="2000-01-15T12:00:00"/>
			<Expires date="2005-01-15T12:00:00"/>
			<Creator>John Hamman</Creator>
			<MetaData name="copyright" value="Copyright 2004"/>
			<Description><![CDATA[Blah Blah
Blah]]></Description>
			<Keywords>Blah Blah Blah</Keywords>
			<Custom name="CssName"><![CDATA[IA]]></Custom>
		</performance>
	</theater>
</ensemble>

Then the OUTPUT will be a Merged XML file that looks like this.
<ensemble>
	<theater>
		<performance link="/Some/Link" topic="/services"
lang="en-US" title="My Music" ver="1.0" lastmod="6/30/2004T12:00:00:00">
			<!-- Page Info  -->
			<FriendlyName>Friendlyname here</FriendlyName>
			<Activate date="2000-01-15T12:00:00"/>
			<Expires date="2005-01-15T12:00:00"/>
			<Creator>John Hamman</Creator>
			<MetaData name="copyright" value="Copyright 2004"/>
			<Description><![CDATA[Blah Blah
Blah]]></Description>
			<Keywords>Blah Blah Blah</Keywords>
			<Custom name="CssName"><![CDATA[IA]]></Custom>
		</performance>
<instruments>
			<instrument type="BreadCrumb" id="PageBreadCrumb">
			<!-- This App is the bread crumb of the page. -->
			<Breadcrumb>
				<Topic title="Home" link="/">
					<Topic title="Services"
link="/services">
						<Topic title="Content
Management" link="/services/content-management"/>
					</Topic>
				</Topic>
			</Breadcrumb>
		</instrument>
		</instruments>
	</theater>
</ensemble>






-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mhk@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 1:17 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [xsl] Merging Document Problem


Without knowing what the other document looks like, or what you want the
result to look like, it's very hard to advise you.

2 observations on your XML:

(a) Names beginning "xml" (in any case combination), like XmlSite, should
not be used because they are reserved for future standardisation

(b) The value of xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation is supposed to be a URI. The
value "H:\Web
Clients\WWWRoot\Ithinkdesigns\XmlSite\_data\Performance.xsd" is not a URI,
it is a Windows filename. This essentially locks you into Microsoft
products, which don't enforce the standard in this area.

Michael Kay





-----Original Message-----
From: John Hamman [mailto:John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 04 July 2004 01:32
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [xsl] Merging Document Problem


Hi all, Maybe someone can help with this.

I have 2 docs I want to merge and one of them is this:



Breadcrumb.xml

<ensemble xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="H:\Web
Clients\WWWRoot\Ithinkdesigns\XmlSite\_data\Performance.xsd">

<theater>

<instrument type="BreadCrumb" id="PageBreadCrumb">

<!-- This App is the bread crumb of the
page. -->


<Breadcrumb>

                                              <Topic title="Home"
link="/">

                                                          <Topic
title="Services" link="/services">


<Topic title="Content Management" link="/services/content-management"/>


</Topic>

</Topic>

</Breadcrumb>

</instrument>

</theater>

</ensemble>



And I want to make sure that everything from <theater> on is copied exactly
like this one.


Does anyone know how I can do this. I am totally lost since its recursive

john



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