ifNotExists Condition

Compatible With

The ifNotExists can only be used on the AddChildContent change types

Description

The use case for ifNotExists is to only apply the operation to add some XML content if the content does not already exist in the output.

It’s advisable to always add the child content as an empty node, and then populate it as a second change. This is so that if the node does already exist, the replacement operation still occurs.

Example


<Change type="AddChildContent" xPath="/root" ifNotExists="/root/testing">
    <Content>
        <![CDATA[<testing/>]]>
    </Content>
</Change>
<Change type="ReplacementContent" xPath="/root/testing">
    <Content>
        <![CDATA[<test myAttr="before">value</test>]]>
    </Content>
</Change>
Substitution Files
Conditional Changes
ifNotExists