I think my article:
http://www.xmltraining.biz/xsltidentity
will help you out.
Cheers,
Jesper Tverskov
On 11/20/06, Jon Crump <jjcrump(_at_)u(_dot_)washington(_dot_)edu> wrote:
I'm sure this is a very straightforward task, but I'm missing something
fundamental about the identity transformation.
I want to copy an xml file exactly except if nodeX lacks a childY write
element Y.
The consensus on the identity transform suggested something like this:
xsl file identity.xsl
<xsl:template match="node()|@*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
xsl file intended transformation.xsl
<xsl:import href="identity.xsl"/>
<xsl:template match="//snotes:SourceNote[not(snotes:sourceDate)]">
<xsl:element
name="sourceDate"><xsl:text>0000-00-00</xsl:text></xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
IE: copy all elements complete, except where //snotes:SourceNote has no
snotes:sourceDate child. In that case, write a snotes:sourceDate element
with the value 0000-00-00.
Anyone willing to point out the obvious to the naive?
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