how to fill text templates using xslt

Question

I have an XML file with information, for example:

  Test
  20
  Me
         


        

Answer 1

One possible solution would be to change your template file to be an XML configuration, like this:

Assuming that the above XML template is named template.xml and in the same directory as the XSLT below:

When the XSLT is run against the sample XML file, it produces the following output:

Dear Test,

some text with other variables like 20 or Test again

greatings Me

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As @Tomalak pointed out, unmatched placeholder elements would be removed from the output. If you wanted to preserve them, to make it apparent that the XML file did not have a match for placeholder items in the template, you could change the template that matches on the template placeholder elements like this:

 

    
    
    
    
    
        
            
        
        
            $
            
        
    

If there was an unmatched placeholder element, for example, then it would appear in the text output as $foo.