XML Nodes - Copying

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I need to basically copy an entire XML document to another XML document.

The first needs to be an exact copy of the second, and I need to do it a
node at a time as I am omitting certain nodes that have certain attributes.

Whats the best way of doing this?

JJ
 
JJ said:
I need to basically copy an entire XML document to another XML document.

The first needs to be an exact copy of the second, and I need to do it a
node at a time as I am omitting certain nodes that have certain attributes.
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An exact copy omits certain nodes?
Whats the best way of doing this?
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Sounds like an easy job for an XSLT stylesheet with two templates, one
the identity transformation, the second for those elements to be omitted
e.g.

<xsl:template match="@* | node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="element-name[@attribute-name]" />

You can run XSLT transformations in .NET 1.x with XslTransform, in .NET
2.x with XslCompiledTransform.
 
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