How Do You Insert XML Into an existing XML node

Question

I'm not even sure if it's possible but say I have some XML:

   <source>
        <list>
            <element id="1"/>
        </list>
    </source>

And I would like to insert into list:

<element id="2"/>

Can I write an XSLT to do this?

Chris Marasti-Georg · Accepted Answer · 2008-09-10 17:00:23Z

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Add these 2 template definitions to an XSLT file:

<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="list">
  <list>
     <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | *"/>
     <element id="2"/>
  </list>
</xsl:template>

answered Sep 10, 2008 at 17:00

Chris Marasti-Georg

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2 Comments

warsze Over a year ago

That's exactly what I was looking for. We have vendor config files where we have to add a bunch of custom properties. Ideally we would like to automate this rather than hand edit it everytime. Thanks!

wilx Over a year ago

Awesome answer even 7 years later. :)

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