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This blog demonstrates how you can JOIN (yes, like in SQL) two xml (datasets) to one using a common ID (relationship).

shop.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='main.xsl'?>

<shop>

	<product>

		<id>100</id>

		<title>hello</title>

	</product>

	<product>

		<id>101</id>

		<title>world</title>

	</product>

	<product>

		<id>102</id>

		<title>praveen</title>

	</product>

</shop>

price.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<shop>

	<product>

		<id>100</id>

		<price>10.0</price>

	</product>

	<product>

		<id>101</id>

		<price>10.1</price>

	</product>

	<product>

		<id>102</id>

		<price>10.2</price>

	</product>

	<product>

		<id>103</id>

		<price>10.3</price>

	</product>
</shop>

main.xsl

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

	<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" />

	<xsl:param name="fileName" select="'price.xml'" />
	<xsl:variable name="updateItems" select="document($fileName)/shop/product" />
	<xsl:template match="@*|node()">

		<xsl:copy>

			<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" />

			<xsl:copy-of select="$updateItems[id=current()/id]/price" />

		</xsl:copy>

	</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Resulting XML, after transformation should look like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='main.xsl'?>

<shop>

  <product>

    <id>100</id>

    <title>hello</title>

    <price>10.0</price>

  </product>

  <product>

    <id>101</id>

    <title>world</title>

    <price>10.1</price>

  </product>

  <product>

    <id>102</id>

    <title>praveen</title>

    <price>10.2</price>

  </product>

</shop>

Bonus code, if some .net developers want a transformation code:

XslTransform xslt = new XslTransform();

xslt.Load(@"D:\Websites\xmltest\main.xsl");

xslt.Transform(@"D:\Websites\xmltest\shop.xml", @"D:\Websites\xmltest\out.xml");

textBox1.Text = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(@"D:\Websites\xmltest\out.xml");