<main>
<parent>
<parentId>parentId1</parentId>
<aParentField>aParentValue
</aParentField>
</parent>
<child>
<parentId>parentId1</parentId>
<aChildField>aChildValue
</aChildField>
</child>
</main>
I am new to XML and was trying to combine A and B using the ID as a parameter to combine, so the result should be like:
<main>
<parent>
<parentId>parentId1</parentId>
<aParentField>aParentValue
</aParentField>
<child>
<aChildField>aChildValue
</aChildField>
</child>
</parent>
</main>
What can be used and how ?
The example is a little ambiguous. Assuming your input can have multiple parent
nodes, each linked to multiple child
nodes, I would suggest you use a key to resolve the cross-references:
XSLT 1.0
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:key name="child" match="child" use="parentId" />
<xsl:template match="/main">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="parent"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="parent">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="key('child', parentId)"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="child">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="*[not(self::parentId)]"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>