Using XML with Legacy Business Applications

Combining Data Content

Okay, let's go back the other way. Suppose we need to combine the contents of two different Elements into one. Here are two examples.

First and Last Names to Full Name

This stylesheet does the exact reverse operation of the one in the previous example, combining first and last names into a full name string.

Stylesheet (CombineContent.xsl)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <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:template match="/SplitContent"> <CombinedContent> <FullName> <xsl:value-of select="FirstName"/> <xsl:text> </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="LastName"/> </FullName> </CombinedContent> </xsl:template> ...