Thanks! That helped a lot! Could the same thing be done, but with the maps
document in side the data document like this:

Data Document (with maps document inside):

<mapswithdata>
 <maps>
  <target id="3" name="UKmusic" />
  <element source="car" target="automobile">
   <attribute source="blue" target="red"/>
   <attribute source="right" target="left"/>
  </element>
  <element source="house" target="close">
   <attribute source="balcony" target="deck"/>
  </element>
 </maps>
 <top>
  <foo x="1" y="2"/>
  <bar x="1" y="2"/>
  <cars>
  <car blue="1"/>
  </cars>
  <houses>
   <house balcony="true" frontdoor="open"/>
  </houses>
 </top>
</mapswithdata>


Desired Target Document After XSLT Transformation

<top>
 <foo x="1" y="2"/>
 <bar x="1" y="2"/>
 <cars>
  <automobile red="1"/>
 </cars>
 <houses>
  <close deck="true"/>
 </houses>
</top>


Ofcourse the <mapswithdata> wrapper and the <maps> node would not be part of
the output. Can this be done or must it be in another file? Any help or
direction much appreciated.


"Marrow" <m--a-r-r-o-w@m-a-r-r-o-w--s-o-f-t.com> wrote in message
news:eBLyAXglEHA.3104@T......
> Hi Daniel,
>
> > Is there any way to make it so that the attributes are not persisted if
> they
> > have no entry in the maps.xml?
>
> Yes, just replace this part of the stylesheet...
>
>   <xsl:choose>
>     <xsl:when test="$this-attribute-map">
>       <xsl:attribute name="{$this-attribute-map/@target}">
>         <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>       </xsl:attribute>
>     </xsl:when>
>     <xsl:otherwise>
>       <xsl:copy/>
>     </xsl:otherwise>
>   </xsl:choose>
>
> with...
>
>   <xsl:if test="$this-attribute-map">
>     <xsl:attribute name="{$this-attribute-map/@target}">
>       <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>     </xsl:attribute>
>   </xsl:if>
>
>
> Cheers
> Marrow
> http://www.marrowsoft.com - home of Xselerator (XSLT IDE and debugger)
> http://www.topxml.com/Xselerator
>
>
> "Daniel" <softwareengineer98037@y...> wrote in message
> news:uLZNdlelEHA.3816@T......
> > Is there any way to make it so that the attributes are not persisted if
> they
> > have no entry in the maps.xml?
> >
> > That worked accept the result it returned was:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > <top>
> >    <foo x="1" y="2"/>
> >    <bar x="1" y="2"/>
> >    <cars>
> >       <automobile red="1"/>
> >    </cars>
> >    <houses>
> >       <close deck="true" frontdoor="open"/>
> >    </houses>
> > </top>
> >
> > but the expected result was:
> >
> > <top>
> >  <foo x="1" y="2"/>
> >  <bar x="1" y="2"/>
> >  <cars>
> >   <automobile red="1"/>
> >  </cars>
> >  <houses>
> >   <close deck="true"/>
> >  </houses>
> > </top>
> >
> > For my case I do not want  frontdoor="open" to be persisted because it
has
> > no entry in the maps document:
> >
> > <maps>
> >  <element source="car" target="automobile">
> >   <attribute source="blue" target="red"/>
> >   <attribute source="right" target="left"/>
> >  </element>
> >  <element source="house" target="close">
> >   <attribute source="balcony" target="deck"/>
> >  </element>
> > </maps>
> >
> > Everything else looks perfect.
> >
> > "Marrow" <m--a-r-r-o-w@m-a-r-r-o-w--s-o-f-t.com> wrote in message
> > news:eMAl%23VakEHA.3912@T......
> > > Hi Daniel,
> > >
> > > Try something like...
> > >
> > > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> > > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> > > <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
> > > <xsl:variable name="maps"
select="document('maps.xml',/)/maps/element"/>
> > >
> > > <xsl:template match="/">
> > >   <xsl:apply-templates/>
> > > </xsl:template>
> > >
> > > <xsl:template match="*">
> > >   <xsl:variable name="this-element-map" select="$maps[@source =
> > > local-name(current())]"/>
> > >   <xsl:choose>
> > >     <xsl:when test="$this-element-map">
> > >       <xsl:element name="{$this-element-map/@target}">
> > >         <xsl:apply-templates select="@*" mode="mapped">
> > >           <xsl:with-param name="attributes-map"
> > > select="$this-element-map/attribute"/>
> > >         </xsl:apply-templates>
> > >         <xsl:apply-templates/>
> > >       </xsl:element>
> > >     </xsl:when>
> > >     <xsl:otherwise>
> > >       <xsl:copy>
> > >         <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
> > >       </xsl:copy>
> > >     </xsl:otherwise>
> > >   </xsl:choose>
> > > </xsl:template>
> > >
> > > <xsl:template match="@*" mode="mapped">
> > >   <xsl:param name="attributes-map"/>
> > >   <xsl:variable name="this-attribute-map"
> select="$attributes-map[@source
> > =
> > > local-name(current())]"/>
> > >   <xsl:choose>
> > >     <xsl:when test="$this-attribute-map">
> > >       <xsl:attribute name="{$this-attribute-map/@target}">
> > >         <xsl:value-of select="."/>
> > >       </xsl:attribute>
> > >     </xsl:when>
> > >     <xsl:otherwise>
> > >       <xsl:copy/>
> > >     </xsl:otherwise>
> > >   </xsl:choose>
> > > </xsl:template>
> > >
> > > <xsl:template match="@* | text() | comment() |
> processing-instruction()">
> > >   <xsl:copy/>
> > > </xsl:template>
> > > </xsl:stylesheet>
> > >
> > >
> > > HTH
> > > Marrow
> > > http://www.marrowsoft.com - home of Xselerator (XSLT IDE and debugger)
> > > http://www.topxml.com/Xselerator
> > >
> > > "Daniel" <softwareengineer98037@y...> wrote in message
> > > news:%23EzPpOWkEHA.524@T......
> > > > Is this possible with an XSLT to merge these two XML documents and
get
> > the
> > > > third document? If so any help, guidence, XSLT would be much
> > appreciated!
> > > >
> > > > Maps Document:
> > > >
> > > > <maps>
> > > >  <element source="car" target="automobile">
> > > >   <attribute source="blue" target="red"/>
> > > >   <attribute source="right" target="left"/>
> > > >  </element>
> > > >  <element source="house" target="close">
> > > >   <attribute source="balcony" target="deck"/>
> > > >  </element>
> > > > </maps>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Data Document:
> > > >
> > > > <top>
> > > >  <foo x="1" y="2"/>
> > > >  <bar x="1" y="2"/>
> > > >  <cars>
> > > >   <car blue="1"/>
> > > >  </cars>
> > > >  <houses>
> > > >   <house balcony="true" frontdoor="open"/>
> > > >  </houses>
> > > > </top>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Desired Target Document After XSLT Transformation
> > > >
> > > > <top>
> > > >  <foo x="1" y="2"/>
> > > >  <bar x="1" y="2"/>
> > > >  <cars>
> > > >   <automobile red="1"/>
> > > >  </cars>
> > > >  <houses>
> > > >   <house deck="true"/>
> > > >  </houses>
> > > > </top>
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>