simple question

I´ve got a file with over 2000 pairs of lines like these:

<base loc="en" >some text</base>
<tran loc="fr" origin=""></tran>

And I want to copy text from base to tran, like this:

<base loc="en" >some text</base>

tran loc="fr" origin="">some text</tran

All the text strings are different.
How can I automate this task? any advice?

TIA

Fran

Debacle <yaya (AT) yeyo (DOT) no> wrote:

I´ve got a file with over 2000 pairs of lines like these:

base loc="en" >some text</base
tran loc="fr" origin=""></tran

That's interesting. Has it got something to do with HTML tags?

And I want to copy text from base to tran,

Huh? What's "base", and who's "tran"?

like this:

base loc="en" >some text</base
tran loc="fr" origin="">some text</tran

So you mean you wish to transform data somehow. Sounds like a job for some
XML-related tool, _if_ the data in XML format (which we cannot know from
the excerpt you gave). Good luck; it's surely not an HTML question.

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You´re right Jukka, it´s really a XML file, but I assumed that could be a
kind of common issue in any tagged format.
thanks anyway.

So you mean you wish to transform data somehow. Sounds like a job for
some XML-related tool, _if_ the data in XML format (which we cannot
know from the excerpt you gave). Good luck; it's surely not an HTML
question.

Use an xsl file. Using <xsl:for-each> loop thru all <base> and assign to
<tran> using the position() function.

DMc.



"Debacle" <yaya (AT) yeyo (DOT) no> wrote

I´ve got a file with over 2000 pairs of lines like these:

base loc="en" >some text</base
tran loc="fr" origin=""></tran

And I want to copy text from base to tran, like this:

base loc="en" >some text</base
tran loc="fr" origin="">some text</tran

All the text strings are different.
How can I automate this task? any advice?

TIA

Fran