Hi everyone,

i'm new to xsl so bare with me. I have the following xml snippet

    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverM anagerDataSource">
        <property name="driverClassName">
            <value>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</value>
        </property>
        <property name="url">
            <value>jdbc:mysql://localhost/someDB</value>
        </property>
        <property name="username">
            <value>aUsername</value>
        </property>
        <property name="password">
            <value>aPassword</value>
        </property>
    </bean>

i would like to change the url value to something else (eg. jdbc:mysql://localhost/devDB)

This is what I have so far.... but all it does is add another "value" node instead of replacing the current one...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
  <xsl:transform xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0" xmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xslt">
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" doctype-system="http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd" doctype-public="-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" />

      <xsl:template match = "property[@name='url']">
          <xsl:element name="{name()}">
              <xsl:call-template name = "putInAttributeName"/>
              <xsl:element name = "value">jdbc:mysql://localhost/devDB</xsl:element>
              <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
          </xsl:element>
      </xsl:template>


      <xsl:template name="putInAttributeName">
          <xsl:attribute name="name">
              <xsl:value-of select="@name" />
          </xsl:attribute>
      </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="/ | * | @*">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="* | @* | text()" />
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

  </xsl:transform>

can i get some examples on how to go about doing this?

thanks,
Hasdy

You've got the general idea. But the only template you need in addition to the identity template, I think, is

      <xsl:template match = "property[@name='url']/value">
        <value>jdbc:mysql://localhost/devDB</value>
      </xsl:template>

Alternatively, you could probably just delete the

<xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>

from your template rule, because it's this instruction that's causing the old value element to be copied.

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

Works great! thanks for the help!

One more thing......

How do you transform elements inside the node tag?

For example...

<Context path="/hello" docBase="hello" debug="0"
reloadable="true" antiJARLocking="true" antiResourceLocking="true"/>

and I want to change the path and docBase to "goodBye"



      <xsl:template match = "Context">

           what goes in here????

      </xsl:template>

Thanks in advance,
Hasdy