Selectively copy and update xml nodes using XSLT

Question

I\'m working with an xml that I need to copy and update to pass on for further processing. The issue I\'m having is that I have not figured out an efficient method to do this. E

Answer 1

This should work for your original question:

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" 
                xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
                xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

  <xsl:variable name='updateData' select='document("report")'/>

  <!-- Identity Transform -->
  <xsl:template match='@* | node()' name='copy'>
      <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:apply-templates select='@* | node()'/>
      </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match='*[not(*)]'>
    <xsl:variable name='matchingValue' 
                  select='$updateData/*[name() = name(current())]'/>
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test='$matchingValue'>
        <xsl:copy>
          <xsl:apply-templates select='@*' />
          <xsl:value-of select='$matchingValue'/>
        </xsl:copy>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test='normalize-space()'>
        <xsl:call-template name='copy' />
      </xsl:when>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

As far as inserting new elements that are not present in the source XML, that's trickier. Could you open a separate question for that? I may have some ideas for how to approach that.