Xml template processing

Hi,
I have a typical problem. I want to read an xml template (which is nothing but an xml document with place holders) and replace the place holders with corresponding values from another xml document which contains the data.
How do I go about it? What is the most common method used?
Thanks
Shailesh

Not having done a survey, I have no idea what is the most common way to solve that. My choice would probably be XSLT, but it would still depend on the details of the problem.

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