XSLT simple parsing problem

misu · August 17th, 2004, 07:24 AM

Hello. I have a simple question BUT for which I have not found yet any response.
I have to transform an XML file to another. Let's take a piece of the first XML file:

<ELEM1>some text1 <ELEM2> some text2 </ELEM2> some text3 </ELEM1>

and in the second XML file I want to result something like:

<ELEM1>some text1 <ELEM3> some text2 </ELEM3> some text3 </ELEM1>

Can anybody help me with a piece of xslt code which do this ???

Thanks in advance.

pgtips · August 17th, 2004, 09:41 AM

something like this maybe?
<xsl:template match="ELEM1">
    <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="ELEM2">
    <ELEM3>
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </ELEM3>
</xsl:template>

joefawcett · August 17th, 2004, 11:25 AM

The generic way is to use the identity transform which copies everything but include specific templates to match any special cases:

Code:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  
  <xsl:template match="node()|@*">

    <xsl:copy>
      
      <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>
  <!--
    Templates to match nodes that need changing go here
  -->
<xsl:template match="ELEM2">
  <ELEM3>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>  
  </ELEM3>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Joe (MVP - xml)

misu · August 18th, 2004, 02:00 AM

Hi and thanks.
Being a junior xslt developper (2 days experience) this was very helpful.

Thanks again.