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Merging documents with similar structure

2005-12-12 20:30:24
I am using Adobe's Livecycle platform to create PDF forms using XFA. I have two files with the 'same' structure and I need to merge the elements at a certain level into one document. The structure is as
follows:


File1.xdp:
<subform name="TopmostSubform">
<subform name="SecGroup">
 <subform name="Section">
  <field name="Do" />
  <draw name="Ra" />
  <field name="Mi" />
 </subform>
 <subform name="Section">
  <field name="Do" />
  <draw name="Ra" />
  <field name="Mi" />
 </subform>
 ...
</subform>
<subform name="SecGroup">
 <subform name="Section">
  <field name="Do" />
  <draw name="Ra" />
  <field name="Mi" />
 </subform>
 <subform name="Section">
  <field name="Do" />
  <draw name="Ra" />
  <field name="Mi" />
 </subform>
 ...
</subform>
...
</subform>



File2.xdp:
<subform name="TopmostSubform">
<subform name="SecGroup">
 <subform name="Section">
  <draw name="Fa" />
 </subform>
 <subform name="Section">
  <draw name="Fa" />
 </subform>
</subform>
<subform name="SecGroup">
 <subform name="Section">
  <draw name="Fa" />
 </subform>
 <subform name="Section">
  <draw name="Fa" />
 </subform>
</subform>
</subform>



Merged.xdp needs to be:
<subform name="TopmostSubform">
<subform name="SecGroup">
 <subform name="Section">
  <field name="Do" />
  <draw name="Ra" />
  <field name="Mi" />
  <draw name="Fa" />
 </subform>
 <subform name="Section">
  <field name="Do" />
  <draw name="Ra" />
  <field name="Mi" />
  <draw name="Fa" />
 </subform>
</subform>
<subform name="SecGroup">
 <subform name="Section">
  <field name="Do" />
  <draw name="Ra" />
  <field name="Mi" />
  <draw name="Fa" />
 </subform>
 <subform name="Section">
  <field name="Do" />
  <draw name="Ra" />
  <field name="Mi" />
  <draw name="Fa" />
 </subform>
</subform>
</subform>


Basically, all elements from file2.xdp under this level:
subform[(_at_)name='TopmostSubform']/subform[(_at_)name='SecGroup']/subform[(_at_)name='Section']

Need to be added to File1.xdp at the same level

I've read many posts from various lists on merging and can't seem to get anything to work. Unfortunately, none of the nodes in the xml files have a "unique" id, otherwise I would use the Oliver Becker
technique at http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~obecker/XSLT/#merge.

I am using Saxon8 as my processor and would appreciate any help in merging these documents.

Thanks!


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