My INPUT XML resembles like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<AddressSearch>
  <utcc:ListOfAddress>
    <utcc:Address>
    <utcc:BA>
      <utcc:OrganisationName>NO1</utcc:OrganisationName>
      <utcc:POBox>POBN1</utcc:POBox>
    </utcc:BA>
    <utcc:AddressReference>
      <utcc:Qualifier>S1</utcc:Qualifier>
    </utcc:AddressReference>
    </utcc:Address>
    <utcc:Address>
    <utcc:BA>
      <utcc:OrganisationName>NO2</utcc:OrganisationName>
      <utcc:POBox>POBN2r</utcc:POBox>
    </utcc:BA>
      <utcc:AddressReference>
      <utcc:RefNum>ARH</utcc:RefNum>
      <utcc:Qualifier>G</utcc:Qualifier>
      <utcc:DistrictCode>DC</utcc:DistrictCode>
    </utcc:AddressReference>
    </utcc:Address>
  </utcc:ListOfAddress>
</AddressSearch>

Now, I need to transform this xml so that my output resembles something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<payload>
  <utcc:OrganisationName(1)>NO1</utcc:OrganisationName(1)>
  <utcc:POBox(1)>POBN1</utcc:POBox(1)></utcc:BA>
  <utcc:AddressReference(1)>
    <utcc:Qualifier(1)>S1</utcc:Qualifier(1)>
  </utcc:AddressReference(1)>
  <utcc:OrganisationName(2)>NO2</utcc:OrganisationName(2)>
  <utcc:POBox(2)>POBN2r</utcc:POBox(2)>
  <utcc:AddressReference(2)>
    <utcc:RefNum>ARH</utcc:RefNum(2)>
    <utcc:Qualifier(2)>G</utcc:Qualifier(2)>
    <utcc:DistrictCode(2)>DC</utcc:DistrictCode(2)>
  </utcc:AddressReference(2)>
</payload>

How can v substitute (n) in this? Is this possible?
I know we need to write a loop to exzecute the same. But i'm not sure how to get this work just fine.
Does anyone have a template for this?

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Ramesh
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Your output is not well-formed XML, so you can't construct it using XSLT.

Instead of

<utcc:OrganisationName(1)>NO1</utcc:OrganisationName(1)>

why not go for

<utcc:OrganisationName seq="1">NO1</utcc:OrganisationName>

This can be achieved very easily using position() or xsl:number.


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

Thanx for the reply mike!
But my requirement is like this only. The thing is - i need to finally convert the above mentioned output xml to a TLV string which should possess the following format (n).

SO even if the xml is not well-formed....cant we create one?

kindly advice!

ramesh

You can serialize the output of an XML transformation as text rather than as XML, but then you have to generate the pseudo-tags yourself, for example writing &lt;somename (1)&gt; etc.

It seems a very odd thing to do. XML is flexible enough for your needs, why use something that isn't XML?

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