To append an XML stream as a chile in another XML stream

[santoshsri]

Hi ,

Can anyone tell me how to add/append an XML stream as a child in existing XML stream ?


Thanks in advance
Santosh

[jkmyoung]

??
Are you looking for something like an include statement, or simply adding text from one file to the next?

What type of code are you using?

[santoshsri]

Well, I have big XML file. Now I have another standalone XML file. I want to plug the standalone XML file as node into the Big one.

Please let me know if it does not make sense to you.

[jkmyoung]

Sounds like it would be best done by a scripting language.
Is the 2nd file to be appended near the end of the first file?

Sounds like:
1. Remove the last closing tag from the first file.
2. Add all of the second file.
3. Add the last closing tag.

If you need to add it somewhere in the middle, it'd be something like:
1. Copy the file until you reach the specified tag.
2. Call a function which adds all of the second file.
3. Copy the rest of the file.

Eg, particular unix commands might be:

sed '$s/ *\([^ ]* *\)$//' data1.file >> output.file
cat data2.file >> output.file
cata endtag.file >> output.file.

Where endtag.file just contains the endtags, and your filenames are data1.file and data2.file.

http://www.computing.net/answers/unix/remove-last-word-in-file/7535.html

http://cds.dl.ac.uk/cds/manuals/unix_guide/node39.html