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    <p>I have two source xml files and I need to construct a new xml file which contains elements chosen for one or other of the files depending on whether their 'name' is contained in a plain text file.</p> <p>xml file a:</p> <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;data name="name1"&gt; &lt;value&gt;abc1&lt;/value&gt; &lt;/data&gt; &lt;data name="name2"&gt; &lt;value&gt;abc2&lt;/value&gt; &lt;/data&gt; &lt;data name="name3"&gt; &lt;value&gt;abc3&lt;/value&gt; &lt;/data&gt; </code></pre> <p>xml file b:</p> <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;data name="name1"&gt; &lt;value&gt;xyz1&lt;/value&gt; &lt;/data&gt; &lt;data name="name2"&gt; &lt;value&gt;xyz2&lt;/value&gt; &lt;/data&gt; &lt;data name="name3"&gt; &lt;value&gt;xyz3&lt;/value&gt; &lt;/data&gt; </code></pre> <p>text file:</p> <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>name1 name3 </code></pre> <p>desired output:</p> <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;data name="name1"&gt; &lt;value&gt;abc1&lt;/value&gt; &lt;/data&gt; &lt;data name="name2"&gt; &lt;value&gt;xyz2&lt;/value&gt; &lt;---- note this element is from file 'b' &lt;/data&gt; &lt;data name="name3"&gt; &lt;value&gt;abc3&lt;/value&gt; &lt;/data&gt; </code></pre> <p>So the elements with names 'name1' and 'name3' come from 'xml file a' because they are listed in the text file, but 'name2' comes from 'xml file b' because it isn't. </p> <p>The actual names aren't 'name1' etc, but arbitrary string identifiers, but they are unique within the files.</p> <p>Is it possible to do this with XSLT? </p>
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