Question

I would like to merge two xml files into one using xslt.

file1:

<cut> <content1> .... </content1> </cut>

file1:

<cut> <content2> .... </content2> </cut>

merged:
<cut>
<content1> ... </content1>
<content2> ... </content2>
</cut>

I would like to pass parameters to the xslt containing the files to merge.

xsltproc.exe” –stringparam file1 s:\file1.xml –stringparam file2 s:\file2.xml s:\merge.xslt

merge.xslt:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common"
    extension-element-prefixes="exsl">

  <xsl:output indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
  <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

  <xsl:param name="file1"/>
  <xsl:param name="file2"/>

  <xsl:variable name="big-doc-rtf">
    <xsl:copy-of select="document($file1)"/>
    <xsl:copy-of select="document($file2)"/>
  </xsl:variable>

  <xsl:variable name="big-doc" select="exsl:node-set($big-doc-rtf)"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <cut>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="$big-doc/cut/*"/>
    </cut>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="*">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="@*|text()|comment()|processing-instruction()">
    <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

I only get an empty “cut” tag. What is wrong?

Answer 1

Can’t repro the problem.

Most probably both document() functions in your code return “nothing” — and this means that the URIs used as the 1st argument of each call don’t identify a file (the file cannot be found/resolved), or the file doesn’t contain a well-formed XML document.