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Re: Adding New Element using XSLT

 
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Jan 12th, 2009
Here is a simple example of adding an element. Suppose you have the folllowing XML document
XML, XSLT and XPATH Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. <root>
  2.    <list>
  3.       <a>aaaa</a>
  4.       <b>bbbb</b>
  5.    </list>
  6. </root>
and you want to add an extra element <c>. The following stylesheet is one way of adding this element.
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  1. <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0" >
  2.   <xsl:param name="ename">c</xsl:param>
  3.   <xsl:param name="evalue">cccc</xsl:param>
  4.  
  5.   <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="utf-8"/>
  6.  
  7.   <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
  8.      <xsl:copy>
  9.        <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" />
  10.      </xsl:copy>
  11.   </xsl:template>
  12.  
  13.   <xsl:template match="list">
  14.      <xsl:copy>
  15.          <xsl:apply-templates/>
  16.           <xsl:if test="not(c)">
  17.              <xsl:element name="{$ename}"><xsl:value-of select="$evalue"/></xsl:element>
  18.           </xsl:if>
  19.      </xsl:copy>
  20.   </xsl:template>
  21.  
  22. </xsl:stylesheet>
The output is
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  1. <root>
  2.       <list>
  3.       <a>aaaa</a>
  4.       <b>bbbb</b>
  5.    <c>cccc</c></list>
  6. </root>
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