Hi all,

I need to transform the following flat and somewhat unstructured sample XML content:

<logs>
  <log>a</log>
  <log>sub b</log>
  <log>c</log>
  <log>sub d</log>
  <log>e</log>
  <log>f</log>
  <log>end of d</log>
  <log>g</log>
  <log>end of b</log>
  <log>h</log>
  <log>i</log>
<logs>

into a more structured content with nesting:

<logs>
  <log name="a">
    <log name="b">
      <log name="c">
        <log name="d">
          <log name="e"/>
          <log name="f"/>
        </log>
      </log>
      <log name="g"/>
    </log>
  </log>
  <log name="h"/>
  <log name="i"/>
</logs>

Is this doable by using XSLT/XPATH?.

Thanks,
kkt

kkt,
This is possible.
You need to just use the xsl:value-of and xsl:attribute to do this.
As the tag names are similar...you could possibly use the tag names hierarchially with (1),(2)...etc to fetch the values.
For retrieving a character from a string...try to use funtions like string-before or string-after or a regex patern match - to get what you want.

thanx

Thanks for your reply. Do you have some sample XSLT code to perform such a transformation?

Thanks,
kkt

Check this out!
Got time to kick this off!!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" exclude-result-prefixes="xsl fo">
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <logs>
            <log>
                <xsl:attribute name="name"><xsl:value-of select="//*/log[1]"/></xsl:attribute>
                <log>
                    <xsl:attribute name="name">
                        <xsl:variable name="x" select="//*/log[2]"/>
                        <xsl:value-of select="substring-after($x,' ')"/>
                    </xsl:attribute>
                    <log>
                        <xsl:attribute name="name"><xsl:value-of select="//*/log[3]"/></xsl:attribute>
                        <log>
                            <xsl:attribute name="name">
                                <xsl:variable name="x" select="//*/log[4]"/>
                                <xsl:value-of select="substring-after($x,' ')"/>
                            </xsl:attribute>
                            <log>
                            <xsl:attribute name="name"><xsl:value-of select="//*/log[5]"/></xsl:attribute>
                            </log>
                            <log>
                            <xsl:attribute name="name"><xsl:value-of select="//*/log[6]"/></xsl:attribute>
                            </log>
                        </log>
                    </log>
                    <log>
                    <xsl:attribute name="name"><xsl:value-of select="//*/log"/></xsl:attribute>
                    </log>
                </log>
            </log>
            <log>
            <xsl:attribute name="name"><xsl:value-of select="//*/log[10]"/></xsl:attribute>
            </log>
            <log>
            <xsl:attribute name="name"><xsl:value-of select="//*/log[11]"/></xsl:attribute>
            </log>
        </logs>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Thanks again for your post.

The XML content in my previous post is just an example. I need a more flexible solution to handle different nestings.

Thanks,
kkt

Then just have it inside a loop. Thats it.

Ramesh
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