Change XMLs

chameleon · November 12th, 2009, 11:43 AM

I want to export an XML with an attribute name="work" to all XML elements.
Here is the XSLT.

Code:

<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" />
<xsl:strip-space elements="*" />

<xsl:template match="*">
	<xsl:attribute name="name">work</xsl:attribute>
	<xsl:apply-templates />
	<xsl:copy-of select="." />
</xsl:template>

Why this doesn't work?

Martin Honnen · November 12th, 2009, 11:48 AM

Code:

<xsl:template match="*">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:copy-of select="@*/>
    <xsl:attribute name="name">work</xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

might do what you want.
Your attempt does try to create the attribute first (without having any element to create an attribute for), then processes any child elements, then makes a deep copy of the element and all its content.

samjudson · November 12th, 2009, 11:53 AM

xsl:attribute must follow either an output literal, or an xslt instruction that outputs and xml element. xsl:template does neither:

<myelement>
<xsl:attribute name="test">value</xsl:attribute>
</myelement>

or

<xsl:element name="myelement">
<xsl:attribute name="test">value</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>

What you are probably wanting is something more like this however:

<xsl:template match="node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:attribute name="name" select="'work'"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="@*">
<xsl:copy/>
</xsl:template>