xslt to remove tag

bricesteven · May 4th, 2010, 02:51 PM

Hi,

I am new to XSLT and I'm trying to change the following XML
<concept>
<title>title</title>
<conbody>
<section>
<p>psection</p>
<q>quotation</q>
</section>
</conbody>
</concept>

to

<concept>
<title>title</title>
<conbody>
<section>
<p>psection</p>
"quotation"
</section>
</conbody>
</concept>

which is basically change the <q> tags to actual quotations.
How can I do this?

Thanks in Advance

mhkay · May 4th, 2010, 03:42 PM

Write a stylesheet with two template rules.

The identity template for elements that you don't want to change:

Code:

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

and a special rule for the elements you do want to change:

Code:

<xsl:template match="q">"<xsl:apply-templates/>"</xsl:template>

bricesteven · May 5th, 2010, 04:03 PM

Surprisingly it does not change the <q> tags to quotations. Why might that be? Is there something wrong in my eclipse configuration or there might be a parser issue?

Thanks

mhkay · May 5th, 2010, 05:47 PM

If it doesn't work, then there's something you haven't told us. Often the thing that people forget to tell us is that the input is in a namespace - but that's just one possible guess.

bricesteven · May 6th, 2010, 09:24 AM

it is in fact in a namespace....is that why is isnt working? How can we fix this?

Martin Honnen · May 6th, 2010, 09:29 AM

Code:

<xsl:template xmlns:foo="http://example.com/foo" match="foo:q">"<xsl:apply-templates/>"</xsl:template>

Replace http://example.com/foo with the namespace URI the "q" element is in in your input