how to fill text templates using xslt

Question

I have an XML file with information, for example:

  Test
  20
  Me
         


        

Answer 1

As @Mads Hansen suggests, if you can use a XML based template this can be solved in an easier, and imo better way.

Here's a solution with a XML template as input.

XML template as input:

Dear ,

some text with other variables like  or  again

greatings 

XSLT:

  
  

  
    Test
    20
    Me
  

  
    
    
  

Output:

Dear Test,

some text with other variables like 20 or Test again

greatings Me

If you use the XML template as input, this is one possible way to solve it. The different values to fill you template with could of course be fetched from an external XML file with fn:document() aswell:

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Update: As @Tomlak commented the above solution isn't very flexible so here is an updated one:

XSLT:

  
  

  
    Test
    20
    Me
  

  
    
  

  
    
    
    
    
      
        Found unknown variable in template: 
        
      
      
    
  

Note that this is a different approach since it uses the template as input document and not the list of variables. Why? To me it makes more sense to use the letter template as input since it's actully that document you transform and get as output.