Add name to element with XSLT

mroosendaal · February 3rd, 2012, 06:19 AM

Hi,

My requirement is that i have to transform this:

Code:

<catalog>
<document name="a">
<product_id>666746837</product_id>
<title>B</title>
<price>15.00</price>
<creator_name>C</creator_name>
<category_L1>D</category_L1>
<availability>102</availability>
</document>
< more documents.....>
</catalog>

into this:

Code:

<add>
<doc>
<field name="product_id">666746837</field>
<field name="title">B</field>
<field name="price">15.00</field>
<field name="creator_name">C</field>
<field name="category_L1">D</field>
<field name="availability">102</field>
</doc>
< more doc....>
</add>

my xslt:

Code:

<xsl:template match="/">
		<xsl:element name="add">
			<xsl:apply-templates select="catalog/document" />
		</xsl:element>
	</xsl:template>

	<xsl:template match="catalog/document">
		<xsl:element name="doc">
			<xsl:apply-templates select="product_id" />
		</xsl:element>
	</xsl:template>
	
	<xsl:template match="product_id">
		<xsl:element name="field" >
			<xsl:value-of select="." />
		</xsl:element>
	</xsl:template>

but my output so far:

Code:

<add><doc><field>666746837</field></doc>

How do i add the 'name' attribute to the field element? The name of the element should be the name of the source xml element;

Hope someone can help.

Maarten

samjudson · February 3rd, 2012, 06:30 AM

A couple of things I would point out that you are doing the hard way.

1. There is no need for all those <xsl:element> instructions. You can enter xml elements into your output by simply typing them as literals.

2. The hard way to do attributes is to use the <xsl:attribute> instruction.

3. The east way it to use attribute value templates, e.g. field="{xpath}".

So your entire XSLT would look something like this:

Code:

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

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

<xsl:template match="document/*">
<field name="{name()}"><xsl:value-of select="."/></field>
</xsl:template>