xml merge two files using xsl?

Question

I need to merge two similar xml files, but only records which match on common tags, e.g.<type> in the following example:

file1.xml is

<node>
    <type>a</type>
    <name>joe</name>
</node>
<node>
    <type>b</type>
    <name>sam</name>
</node>

file2.xml is

<node>
    <type>a</type>
    <name>jill</name>
</node>

so that I have an output of

<node>
    <type>a</type>
    <name>jill</name>
    <name>joe</name>
</node>
<node>
    <type>b</type>
    <name>sam</name>
</node>

What are the basics of doing this, in xsl? Many thanks.

Answer 1

This stylesheet:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:key name="kElementByType" match="*[not(self::type)]" use="../type"/>
    <xsl:param name="pSource2" select="'file2.xml'"/>
    <xsl:variable name="vSource2" select="document($pSource2,/)"/>
    <xsl:template match="node()|@*" name="identity">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="type">
        <xsl:variable name="vCurrent" select="."/>
        <xsl:call-template name="identity"/>
        <xsl:for-each select="$vSource2">
            <xsl:apply-templates select="key('kElementByType',$vCurrent)"/>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

With this input (wellformed):

<root>
    <node>
        <type>a</type>
        <name>joe</name>
    </node>
    <node>
        <type>b</type>
        <name>sam</name>
    </node>
</root>

Output:

<root>
    <node>
        <type>a</type>
        <name>jill</name>
        <name>joe</name>
    </node>
    <node>
        <type>b</type>
        <name>sam</name>
    </node>
</root>