Dear Monks,

I have several dynamically generated XML files in a directory, and I like to take certain fields and values from it and build a index.xml file.

I can combine the files into a single string, strip some headers and get the value what I want. I am looking for cleaner apporach. I discussed this in CB for a while. Either Perl based or XSLT based solution would be good.

Thanks,

Update: Here is the example: There are multiple files in given directory. 

#File1.xml
<root>
<person>
<name>John</name>
<age>23</age>
<city>New York</city>
</person>

<person>
<name>Marry/name>
<age>22</age>
<city>London</city>
</person>
</root>

#File2.xml
<root>
<person>
<name>Joe </name>
<age>25</age>
<city>Huston</city>
</person>
</root>

#index.xml
<friends>
  <person>
    <name>John</name>
    <age>23<age>
  </person>
  <person>
    <name>Marry</name>
    <age>22<age>
  </person>
  <person>
    <name>Joe</name>
    <age>25<age>
  </person>
</friends>
<person>
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