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Cool! Thanks for this reply, David.
The result is not quite right because each etext attribute was supposed to become the
contents of each <record></record>.
Going the other way might require reordering the groups of records to place all with
identical attributes together. Or the stylesheet could explicitly state the matching
attributes that cause a <g><e/></g> block and that would be pretty easy. What is
interesting is that users would do this grouping themselves ... they would do it as a
matter of convenience when creating the <g><e/></g> blocks.
The ultimate improvement of your example is an identity transform copying everything
verbatim except this expansion of the <g><e/></g>. That is the stylesheet that would
substantially implement what I am proposing for files preprocessed against the
stylesheet. How easy is that? :)
regards,
bill p
David Carlisle wrote:
> > 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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