On Feb 6, 5:57 pm, foolproofp...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hey everyone. I am running into a problem with unique ids
> that need to be compared in two xml files. The actual
> object name is represented with its unique id later in
> the xml file, so i need to do a search on an id, find its
> name, and then replace the original id with the name
> instead. If this doesn't make much sense, here is an
> example:
>
> <DBViewer template_id=" .... />

Ouch. That's not particularly well-formed.

>     <Fruits
> type="ObjectLink" >:1170775272:459887139:</Fruits>
> </DBViewer>
>
> <excel_database template_id=":324:431:"
> id=":1170775272:459887139:" name="banana" />
>
> In this example, the Fruit ObjectLink should be "banana"
> because it has the same id as the database below.

You should've posted some code. What precisely your problem
is? Something like this:

  <xsl:template match="*[@type='ObjectLink']">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates
        select=
        "
          //excel_database[@id=current()/text()]/@name
        "/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

...should do the trick.

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roy axenov