I am using a copy pattern that Michael Kay very kindly described
originally for me.
These are the last two templates in my document that do the copying-

<xsl:template match="*" mode="copy">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
            <xsl:apply-templates mode="copy"/>
        </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/root/xform">
        <xsl:apply-templates mode="copy"/>
</xsl:template>


Now I have a template that makes a conditional copy of the
/root/xform/xforms:model/xforms:instance node -

    <xsl:template match="/root/xform/xforms:model/xforms:instance"
mode="copy">
        <xforms:instance>
            <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
            <xsl:choose>
                <xsl:when test="empty(/root/page)">
                    <xsl:copy-of select="child::node()"/>
                </xsl:when>
                <xsl:otherwise>
                    <xsl:copy-of select="/root/page"/>
                </xsl:otherwise>
            </xsl:choose>
        </xforms:instance>
    </xsl:template>


Now, what I would like to do is apply a template to that template, so
that I can conditionally replace the
/root/xform/xforms:model/xforms:instance/page/contact node with a custom
node. I tried something like this but I couldnt get it to work, I also
tried playing with priorities and modes but didnt make any progress.

<xsl:template
match="/root/xform/xforms:model/xforms:instance/page/contact"
mode="copy">
        <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="empty(/root/contact)">
                <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:otherwise>
                <xsl:copy-of select="/root/contact"/>
            </xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>


If you could provide me with details of how to acheive that, I think I
could extend that to other nodes that I want to conditinally replace
with custom nodes -

/root/xform/xforms:model/xforms:instance/page/location
/root/xform/xforms:model/xforms:instance/page//start
/root/xform/xforms:model/xforms:instance/page//end

Thanks very much - Adam Retter


For reference my XML document structure looks something like this -

<root>
    <contact>
        <title>Miss</title>
        <firstname>Jo</firstname>
        <lastname>Smith</lastname>
        <telephone>
            <number type="Office">01404 812345</number>
        </telephone>
        </contact>
    <location>
        <address>The Old Institute</address>
        <address>Yonder Street</address>
        <town>Ottery St Mary</town>
        <county>Devon</county>
        <postcode>EX11 1XX</postcode>
    </location>
    <start>2006-11-01T09:00:00.00</start>
    <end>2006-11-01T18:00:00.00</end>
    <xform xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events" xmlns:xforms
        ="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms">
        <xforms:model ev:event="xforms-revalidate"
ev:defaultAction="cancel">
            <xforms:submission id="submit"
action="http://localhost:8080/exist/servlet/db/CommunityDirectory/index.
xql?action=savepage" method="post" replace="all"/>
            <xforms:instance>
                <page design="event">
                    <title/>
                    <description/>
                    <when>
                        <start/>
                        <end/>
                        <occurs>Once</occurs>
                    </when>
                    <contact>
                        <title/>
                        <firstname/>
                        <lastname/>
                        <telephone/>
                    </contact>
                    <location>
                        <address/>
                        <town/>
                        <county/>
                        <postcode/>
                        <directions/>
                    </location>
                    <cost/>
                </page>
            </xforms:instance>
      </xforms:model>
   </xform>
</root>

Adam Retter

Principal Developer
Devon Portal Project, e-Partnership
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