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Merge Two XML Files in Java

Asked 2009-03-15T20:19:47.293
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I have two XML files of similar structure which I wish to merge into one file. Currently I am using EL4J XML Merge which I came across in this tutorial. However it does not merge as I expect it to for instances the main problem is its not merging the from both files into one element aka one that contains 1, 2, 3 and 4. Instead it just discards either 1 and 2 or 3 and 4 depending on which file is merged first.

So I would be grateful to anyone who has experience with XML Merge if they could tell me what I might be doing wrong or alternatively does anyone know of a good XML API for Java that would be capable of merging the files as I require?

Many Thanks for Your Help in Advance

Edit:

Could really do with some good suggestions on doing this so added a bounty. I've tried jdigital's suggestion but still having issues with XML merge.

Below is a sample of the type of structure of XML files that I am trying to merge.

<run xmloutputversion="1.02">
    <info type="a" />
    <debugging level="0" />
    <host starttime="1237144741" endtime="1237144751">
        <status state="up" reason="somereason"/>
        <something avalue="test" test="alpha" />
        <target>
            <system name="computer" />
        </target>
        <results>
            <result id="1">
                <state value="test" />
                <service value="gamma" />
            </result>
            <result id="2">
                <state value="test4" />
                <service value="gamma4" />
            </result>
        </results>
        <times something="0" />
    </host>
    <runstats>
        <finished time="1237144751" timestr="Sun Mar 15 19:19:11 2009"/>
        <result total="0" /&g
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Have you considered just not bothering with parsing the XML "properly" and just treating the files as big long strings and using boring old things such as hash maps and regular expressions...? This could be one of those cases where the fancy acronyms with X in them just make the job fiddlier than it needs to be.

Obviously this does depend a bit on how much data you actually need to parse out while doing the merge. But by the sound of things, the answer to that is not much.

answered 2009-03-27T02:08:56.523

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