I'm working on setting up an exist-db instance using XSLTforms for non-technical data input. What I want to do sounds simple, but I can't find documentation for it, nor have other asked similar questions, so I'm guessing that I'm missing something obvious here. I want to insert a nodeset from my XSLTforms instance to a pre-existing xml file, but without overwriting the existing data.
<xf:submission id="s03" method="put" nodeset="instance('template')/x/y" resource="../data/XX.xml" replace="none">
works fine in terms of xpath etc, but replaces the entire xx.xml with the new instance. All I want to do is add my instance to the document. I've tried various approaches to create an xpath context for an insert, but this hasn't worked.
What am I doing wrong? Thanks R
@Joe Wicentowski put me on the right path but what I was missing was a simple pre return statement for the update insert:
let $update := update insert $formdata into $target
This allows me to insert a nodeset ($formdata) into a target nodeset ($target) and the return function is simply communicating success or error.