Hi All,
Thanks for all thoughts.
The discussion now boiled down to more specific
requirements.
I need to merge multiple in-memory DOM structures. I
only know a single way to merge the XMLs i.e. load the
xml file using document function and output it's value
in the appropriate place.
Is there any way to load the in-memory xml document in
XSL just like document function.
Writing a file and loading it using document function
doesn't seem to be a good idea in my case.
This is the reason I thought of using XPath API, where
I can get any part of the DOM and merge it to another
DOM.
Any suggestions????
Thanks
Dennis
--- Joseph Kesselman <keshlam(_at_)us(_dot_)ibm(_dot_)com> wrote:
Just to clarify: The problem is that the problem
description is
incomplete:
I have to merge multiple XML that would come from
various sources. All the XML coming conform to the
same single Schema. The XML coming from various
sources will be merged and the merged xml will
still
conform to that schema
There isn't an API for the concept of "merge" --
because "merge" isn't
well defined. There are generally many ways to merge
data to produce a new
document which will conform to the same schema, but
the meaning of those
documents will differ.
To take an HTML example, you can merge two tables
into one by adding rows,
or adding columns, or combining values... sorted on
any of the above or
unsorted, with repeated values kept or eliminated...
Or maybe you intended
to put both tables into the output document as they
stand, with or without
descriptive text assocated with them...
So you need to specify in detail what you mean by
"merge". For that, you
need to do some programming -- either at a low level
by hardcoding it, or
at a higher level by using a language such as XSLT,
or in a more
specialized transcoding tool.
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