7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: parsing the first XML document and second XML document to generate the list of attributes; sending the list of attributes to a requesting system; and receiving from the requesting system the merge attribute selected from the list of attributes.
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: parsing the first XML document and second XML document to generate the list of attributes; sending the list of attributes to a requesting system; and receiving from the requesting system the merge attribute selected from the list of attributes. 8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising specifying, for the merge attribute, the XML namespace definition for the element associated with the merge attribute.