Re: [xsl] template to convert all attributes' name to lowercase

Subject: Re: [xsl] template to convert all attributes' name to lowercase
From: Heping Zhang <phoenix.zhp@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 16:47:34 +0800
hi,Michael Kay,  oh yes, I think you are right. This file is used in
Microsoft's workflow product. But your knowledge on file format is
amazing! :) My task is to standardize the elements' and attributes'
name in thousands of these files. But Xml manipulation API cann't
change these names. I search the solution in web and people say it can
be done with XSLT. So I want to try. Actually the job is a little
complicated than this. But I think from this point I can find the way
myself. I just want to learn new things. If I cann't tackle it with
XSLT, I can still using regular expression to do the work. Thank you
very much!

2009/5/28 Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> I hava a task to convert all attributes' name in a xslt file
>> to lowercase. Actually I don't know whether it's a xslt file.
>
> It's not an XSLT file, it's a stylesheet written in an obsolete Microsoft
> language (often called WD-xsl) that was based on an early draft of XSLT,
> with Microsoft additions and deletions.
>
>> It looks strange, like this:
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl";>
>>       <xsl:template match=" / ">
>>               <HTML>
>>                       <BodY bgColor="#c0c0c0" Class="screen"
>> FNSType="SINGLEPAGESCREEN"
>> id="FNSScreen">
>>                       //many html things go here.
>>                       </BodY>
>>               </HTML>
>>       </xsl:template>
>> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>> I'm a novice of  xslt and have only two days to finish this task.
>
> Usually if a task is urgent and the user is a novice I reckon the best
> advice I can give is "don't even attempt it, you will only make a mess of
> it". However this one is fairly easy. I suspect you want to change the
> element names to lower-case too? That's essentially a modified identity
> stylesheet:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>
>  <xsl:template match="*">
>    <xsl:element name="lower-case(name())" namespace="{namespace-uri()}">
>      <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
>    </xsl:element>
>  </xsl:template>
>
>  <xsl:template match="@*">
>    <xsl:attribute name="lower-case(name())" namespace="{namespace-uri()}">
>      <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>    </xsl:element>
>  </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> That solution uses XSLT 2.0. If for some reason you have to use XSLT 1.0,
> you can replace
>
> lower-case(X)
>
> by
>
> translate(X, 'ABCDE....Z', 'abcde....z')
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
> http://twitter.com/michaelhkay

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