Hi all,

what's your recommendation for XML tools in order to merge data from
different sources?

The first task would be once you have two different XML tables in order
to merge them to one.

Another task could be to provide some translation tables, importing one
xml field to another one, named differently, accepting some kind of
translation table between name 1 in table 1 and name 2 in table 2.

A diff of XML tables would be desirable, as well as some mechanisms how
two handle data which is available in two tables with different data. I
might be interested to accept e.g. a certain field 1 from table 1 in
order to override data in table 2.


Personally, I guess I'd prefer some perl xml module in order to build
those helpers myself. But YMMV. What's your recommendation?

Thanks,
Martin

Martin Trautmann wrote:

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> what's your recommendation for XML tools in order to merge data from
> different sources?[/color]

An XSLT stylesheet can do it, it has one primary input XML document but
allows reading in nodes from secondary input documents using the
function named document.


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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

On Tue, 17 May 2005 14:16:07 +0200, Martin Honnen wrote:[color=blue]
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> Martin Trautmann wrote:
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> > what's your recommendation for XML tools in order to merge data from
> > different sources?[/color]
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> An XSLT stylesheet can do it, it has one primary input XML document but
> allows reading in nodes from secondary input documents using the
> function named document.[/color]

I'm afraid this will overwrite any current data? It might be easy to
remove empty entries befor, while I'd not like to override existing
entries without some kind of control.

Thanks,
Martin