Adding element in middle of xml using xslt

Question

Below is the actual xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <employee>  <Name>ABC</Name>  <Dept>CS</Dept>  <Designation>sse</Designation> </employee> 

And i want the output as below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <employee>  <Name>ABC</Name>   <Age>34</Age>  <Dept>CS</Dept>   <Domain>Insurance</Domain>  <Designation>sse</Designation> </employee> 

Is this possible to add XML element in between using xslt? Please give me sample!

Answer 1

Here is an XSLT 1.0 stylesheet that will do what you asked:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">    <!-- Identity transform -->    <xsl:template match="@* | node()">       <xsl:copy>          <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>       </xsl:copy>    </xsl:template>     <xsl:template match="Name">       <xsl:copy-of select="."/>       <Age>34</Age>    </xsl:template>     <xsl:template match="Dept">       <xsl:copy-of select="."/>       <Domain>Insurance</Domain>    </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> 

Obviously the logic will vary depending on where you will be getting the new data from, and where it needs to go. The above stylesheet merely inserts an <Age> element after every <Name> element, and a <Domain> element after every <Dept> element.

(Limitation: if your document could have <Name> or <Dept> elements within other <Name> or <Dept> elements, only the outermost ones will have this special processing. I don't think you intend for your document to have this kind of recursive structure, so it wouldn't affect you, but it's worth mentioning just in case.)