Concatenating XML Documents

05 Nov 2001 19:18

Introduction

Concatenating documents is easy.  Let's concatenate two account records.

Here are the files for the example.  To run this example, extract the files and execute "go".  The resulting output is in the file result.xml.

Here is the first record:

<Account>
  <Balance>500</Balance>
</Account>

The second account is embedded in the style sheet:

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

<!--source of data-->
<xsl:variable name="source">

<Account>
  <Balance>1000</Balance>
</Account>
</xsl:variable>

<!-- Merge two <Accounts> by appending each Account -->

<xsl:template match="/">
  <Dashboard>
    <xsl:copy-of select="*"/>
   <xsl:copy-of select="$source"/>
   </Dashboard>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Here is the resulting document:

<Dashboard>
  <Account>
    <Balance>500</Balance>
  </Account>
  <Account xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0">
    <Balance>1000</Balance>
  </Account>
</Dashboard>