Re: [xsl] Copying-Replacing Elements

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matt,

Your are on the right track. What you need is a "modified identity 
transformation", an idiom widely used in XSLT to deal with problems like yours.

At 05:43 PM 9/1/2005, you wrote:
> The original node would look something like this...
> <data>
>         <cell id="8" flag="false">
>                 <name>bob</name>
>                 <member>5</member>
>         </cell>
> </data>
>
> The output would like something like this...
> <data>
>         <cell id="8" flag="true">
>                 <name>matt</name>
>         </cell>
> </data>
> <data>
>         <cell id="8" flag="false">
>                 <name>bob</name>
>                 <member>5</member>
>         </cell>
> </data>
>
> I'm thinking the xsl would look something like this
> <xsl:template name="createNewSiblingMember" match="something that
> returns a single node">
>         <xsl:copy-of select=".">
>                 ...do some kind of transformations...
>         </xsl:copy-of>
>         <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
> </xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="data">
  <xsl:copy>
    <!-- the copy instruction copies the element, but not its
         attributes or children -->
    ...what do you want to do? add new stuff?
    change values of attributes or child elements?
    based on what rules?...
  </xsl:copy>
  <!-- the copy-of instruction "deep-copies" the node as is -->
  <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template

Check out more in the FAQ at http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/identity.html

Cheers,
Wendell


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