I'm a little new to this XSL stuff so let me know if I'm
completely of base. ß I'm sure you will even without my saying
this J
I have an XML document (schema) that I want to transform
using XSL. The transform will be an "almost" identity
transform. In other words there will be minor changes. Some of the
types of changes that I will need to make include the following:
1) Convert an attribute for an element into a "child"
element of the element where the attribute was found:
<element
@name="somename"/>
changes
to
<element>
<name>somename</name>
</element>
2) Bring certain elements up 1 level or more
levels:
<element1>
<element2>
<element3>somedata1</element3>
<element4>somedata2</element4>
</element2>
</element1>
changes
to
<element1>
<element3>somedata1</element3>
<element3>somedata2</element4>
</element1>
I didn't see a way to do this with the "classic"
identity transform and override templates. If there is a way, by all
means let me know.
I actually have a transform (see below) that I believe is a
good start to solving this problem, but I am running into 1 significant
problem. The piece of the transform that iterates over the attributes of an
element fails to see any namespace attributes. You can run this transform
against any XML document and it currently outputs the identity XML document
minus and namespace attributes. My question is why? Or more
importantly how do I get it to give me the namespace attributes so that I can
output them?
Dave Simmonds
Vantage Controls, Inc.
dsimmonds@vantagecontrols.com
XSL follows:
<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<!-- match all elements-->
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:element name="{name()}">
<xsl:for-each select="@*"> <!-iterate over each attribute - why are namespace
attributes skipped? -->
<xsl:attribute name="{name()}"><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:attribute>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:value-of select="."/> <!-- if there is a value for this element - output it now -->
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<!-- Copy all comments -->
<xsl:template match="comment()">
<xsl:copy/>
</xsl:template>
<!-- Copy all processing instructions -->
<xsl:template match="processing-instruction()">
<xsl:copy/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
