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   Re: [xml-dev] Idea - std. non-flat <g><e/></g> syntax

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> That sounds promising. The whole idea is that attribute heavy flat xml has an
> obvious normalization that I want to accomplish using the <g><e/></g> reformatting
> ... by the simplest most obvious means possible.

For example, the following is a complete xslt stylesheet that will
convert your <g><e>... input documemt to a series of record elements
with all attributes copied.

<records xsl:version="1.0"
   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:for-each select="//e">
<xsl:element name="{ancestor-or-self::*[@ename][1]/@ename}">
<xsl:copy-of
   select="ancestor-or-self::*/@*[not(name()='ename')] |
   ancestor::*/gi/@*"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:for-each>
</records>


Going in the reverse direction isn't a lot more complicated.

David

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