Martin you just made this so easy. Thanks a lot. but I have some more issues. I dont know whether it would be appropriate to ask that much but I will try.
one part of your xsl is like this:
<xsl:template match="text()[normalize-space(.) = 'Sadd']">
<emph><xsl:value-of select="upper-case(.)"/></emph>
</xsl:template>
here you were transforming "Sadd" to "SADD" with a <emph> tag. actually my html is not static. I actually have a SWING text editor(almost like this text editor where I am writing this message now ) where you can write text coupon and in the server side I was getting the html. I was trying to transorm that html. that html might have anything. So, actually I was needing to transform any <b> tag with <emph> tag wherever it appears. I really dont need the uppercase thing. So, following your example I replaced the above part of your code with this:
<xsl:template match="b">
<emph>
<xsl:copy-of select="@"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</emph>
</xsl:template>
So, my new xsl looks like this now(which is again brainchild of yours):
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="2.0">
<xsl:template match="body">
<POSMESSAGE>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</POSMESSAGE>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="p">
<TextMSG>
<xsl:copy-of select="@align"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</TextMSG>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="b">
<emph>
<xsl:copy-of select="@b"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</emph>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
after using the above xsl my output is :
<POSMESSAGE>
<TextMSG>
This coupon is for a <emph>good guy</emph> whose first name is :
</TextMSG>
<TextMSG>
</TextMSG>
<TextMSG align="center">
<emph>Sadd</emph>
</TextMSG>
<TextMSG align="center">
</TextMSG>
<TextMSG align="right">
also whose full_name is Sadd Hossain
</TextMSG>
<TextMSG align="left">
</TextMSG>
<TextMSG align="left">
He is a <emph>software engineer</emph> for S&H
</TextMSG>
</POSMESSAGE>
That is perfect. but one thing is I have to transform the font size attribute also from my original input. initially i ignored that. As now you gave me a start I need to do this too. I need "SIZE" instead of "font size" in the output. So, i followed your way and added this snippet with the existing:
<xsl:template match="font size">
<SIZE>
<xsl:copy-of select="@size"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</SIZE>
</xsl:template>
So, my final xsl look like this now:
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="2.0">
<xsl:template match="body">
<POSMESSAGE>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</POSMESSAGE>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="p">
<TextMSG>
<xsl:copy-of select="@align"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</TextMSG>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="b">
<emph>
<xsl:copy-of select="@b"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</emph>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="font size">
<SIZE>
<xsl:copy-of select="@size"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</SIZE>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
which gives me this output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<POSMESSAGE>
<TextMSG>
This coupon is for a <emph>good guy</emph> whose first name is :
</TextMSG>
<TextMSG>
</TextMSG>
<TextMSG align="center">
<SIZE size="3"><emph>SADD</emph></SIZE>
</TextMSG>
<TextMSG align="center">
</TextMSG>
<TextMSG align="right">
also whose full_name is Sadd Hossain
</TextMSG>
<TextMSG align="left">
</TextMSG>
<TextMSG align="left">
He is a <SIZE size="5"><emph>software engineer</emph></SIZE> for S&H
</TextMSG>
</POSMESSAGE>
notice that i have now <SIZE size="5"> but i really needed <SIZE ="5"> where I am doing the mistake????? If you could let me know.
another last thing which i did not try yet as I could not solve this size issue is i have to transform any empty <p> with <LF> like in the above output where I have :
<TextMSG>
</TextMSG>
or
<TextMSG align="left">
</TextMSG>
I have to replace it with just
<LF/>
or if you think it in terms of input
<p>
</p>
or
<p align="left">
</p>
I have to replace it empty <p>s with
<LF/>
If you could shed any light about this also will be extremely helpful. even if you cant still I want to Thank you again. your help was really really helpful. I was really going in a wrong way regarding XSL before your help.
need help with this html to xml transform
