Xsl: strip-space elements; and 'group-adjacent'

ROCXY · January 5th, 2006, 12:46 AM

Hi All,

I have an XML,

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<artbody>
       <section id="s1">

           <quest>What's your name?</quest>
           <quest>What's your name?</quest>
           <answer>Rocxky</answer>
           <answer>Rocxky</answer>
       </section>
</artbody>

Used XSL.
---------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:for-each-group select="child::node()" group-adjacent="self::quest or self::answer">
    <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="current-grouping-key()">
        <QandA>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="current-group()" />
        </QandA>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="current-group()"/>
        </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
    </xsl:for-each-group>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Observed Output
---------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<artbody>
   <section>
      <QandA>
         <quest>What's you name?</quest>
         <quest>What's you name?</quest>
         <answer>Rocxky</answer>
         <answer>Rocxky</answer>
      </QandA>
   </section>
</artbody>

As you see <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> the attribute value "s1" of <section id="s1"> to <section>.

Kindly suggest us how to convert section with attributes as it is to the target XML.

Thanks & Regards,
-ROCXKY

mhkay · January 5th, 2006, 05:24 AM

After

<xsl:copy>

add

<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>

if you want to copy the attributes unchanged.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

ROCXY · January 5th, 2006, 11:29 PM

Thanks for the reply.

-ROCXY

ROCXY · July 15th, 2010, 08:29 AM

Hi All,

How can we handle multiple template-match (more than 1 match) for below scenario:

XML INPUT

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<artbody>
<section>
<A>What's your name?</A>
<A>What's your name?</A>
<B>Rocxy</B>
<B>Rocxy</B>

<C>What's your Bushiness?</C>
<C>What's your Bushiness?</C>
<D>XML Research</D>
<D>XML Research</D>
</section>
</artbody>

XML OUTPUT
<section>
<1>
<A>What's your name?</A>
<A>What's your name?</A>
<B>Rocxy</B>
<B>Rocxy</B>
</1>

<2>
<C>What's your Bushiness?</C>
<C>What's your Bushiness?</C>
<D>XML Research</D>
<D>XML Research</D>
</2>

</section>

Any help would be grateful.

Martin Honnen · July 15th, 2010, 08:37 AM

An element name is not allowed to start with a digit so the output you want is not possible.
Also explain what determines the grouping exactly, why are the A and B elements in one group and the C and D elements in a second group?

ROCXY · July 15th, 2010, 08:53 AM

Hi Martin Honnen

Thanks for swift response. <1> stands for Personal group say <PG> and <2> for business group say <BG>

Sorry for using digits as an exhibits...

Any help would be great full

Martin Honnen · July 15th, 2010, 08:59 AM

Does

Code:

<xsl:template match="section">
   <xsl:copy>
      <PG><xsl:copy-of select="A, B"/></PG>
      <BG><xsl:copy-of select="C, D"/></BG>
   </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

do what you want?
I am not sure what your grouping criteria are and what problem you face, with the post mentioning strip-space and group-adjacent without any details.