How to get Attributes of a element?

g_srihari9 · August 18th, 2003, 06:28 AM

Hi i got an problem. i have to read a xml file and using xsl i have to generate another xml file. could you any one please help me in getting a attribute names of a element?

Ex: file1.xml

<ReplyMessage>
   <SubscriberRequest SubscriberID="SDP01" SubscriberPutTimeStamp="" SubscriberTimeZone="" Freshness="11" TrackingNumber="" ApplicationType="ONLINE">
       <DataKey>
         <Data>121</Data>
          .
          .
          .
        </DataKey>
    </SubscriberRequest>
</ReplyMessage>

Output File Should be

<ReplyMessage>
   <SubscriberRequest SubscriberID="SDP01" SubscriberPutTimeStamp="" SubscriberTimeZone="" Freshness="11" TrackingNumber="" ApplicationType="ONLINE">
       <DataKey>
         ....... </DataKey>
</ReplyMessage>

I want the Bold area should disply same in both files!!
Please help me...

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Srihari

Srihari

armmarti · August 18th, 2003, 07:11 AM

As I understood, you want just copy all the attributes along with the element "SubscriberRequest" into the output tree.
You can write:

Code:

   ...
   <xsl:template match="SubscriberRequest">
      <xsl:copy>  
        <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
        <DataKey>

        </DataKey>
      </xsl:copy>
   </xsl:template> 
   ...

And also I think it'll be better to think of XSLT transformation as a process which deals with tree(s) and which outputs tree(s). The serialization (XML tree -> .xml file, for example) is a separate process, and a transformation souldn't be viewed as outputting the tag "<x>", followed by some text and then the closing tag "</x>".

Regards,
Armen