Question

How would the conditional statement look like if I’m to insert a section of text into the xml below using xslt?

<items xmlns="http://mynamespace.com/definition">
    <item>
        <number id="1"/>
    </item>
    <item>
        <number id="2"/>
    </item>
    <!-- insert the below text -->
    <reference>
        <refNo id="a"/>
        <refNo id="b"/>
    </reference>
    <!-- end insert -->
</items>

This is how my xsl looks like at the moment (the condition is wrong…):

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns="http://mynamespace.com/definition"
    version="1.0">
    <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
    <xsl:param name="addRef">
        <reference>
            <refNo id="a"/>
            <refNo id="b"/>
        </reference>
    </xsl:param>
    <xsl:template match="node()|@*" name="identity">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
    <!-- here is where the condition got stuck... -->
    <xsl:template match="/items[namespace-url()=*]/item[position()=last()]">
        <xsl:call-template name="identity"/>
        <xsl:copy-of select="$addRef"/>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I wanted to add the reference section after the bottom-most , but I got stuck with how to get around matching an element that has a (explicit) namespace.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try this:

match="//*[local-name()='items']/*[local-name()='item'][position()=last()]"