1) Process fileA using the identity transform
2) In the <record> template, key into fileB using the title, where the
key matches "record" and uses "title"
3) Copy the name and url elements, or *[not(self::title)]

cheers
andrew

2009/11/16 Mak, Lucas Wing Kau <makw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I want to merge two XML files (i.e. fileA & fileB below) by matching the
values in their <title> elements and grabbing everything from fileA, but only
the <url> element from fileB.
>
> fileA
> <collection>
>        <record>
>                <title>abc</title>
>                <name>peter</name>
>        </record>
>        <record>
>                <title>def</title>
>                <name>jack</name>
>        </record>
>        <record>
>                <title>ghi</title>
>                <name>john</name>
>        </record>
> </collection>
>
> fileB
> <collection>
>        <record>
>                <title>abc</title>
>                <date>11/23/2008</date>
>                <url>http://no.com</url>
>        </record>
>        <record>
>                <title>ghi</title>
>                <date>12/12/2007</date>
>                <url>http://hello.com</url>
>        </record>
>        <record>
>                <title>cmyk</title>
>                <date>10/12/2006</date>
>                <url>http://hi.com</url>
>        </record>
> </collection>
>
> Output XML
> <collection>
>        <record>
>                <title>abc</title>
>                <name>peter</name>
>                <url>http://no.com</url>
>        </record>
>        <record>
>                <title>ghi</title>
>                <name>john</name>
>                <url>http://hello.com</url>
>        </record>
> </collection>
>
> How I can do it? I am using XSLT 1.0 since I am more familiar with 1.0
(though my processor also support 2.0)
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Wing (makw@xxxxxxx)
>
>



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