RE: [xsl] Simple XML transformation advice needed

Subject: RE: [xsl] Simple XML transformation advice needed
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:19:43 -0000
The problem is that when you do:

<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>

it's not defined in what order the attributes will be processed. You are
required to generate attributes on the result element before you
generate child elements, so as you've discovered, your stylesheet will
work only if you choose an XML parser that happens to process the
attributes in the "right" order (for you), which is a matter of luck.

I'd suggest changing the apply-templates to control the order in which
attributes are processed explicitly.

Michael Kay
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Peter Dalmaris
> Sent: 28 January 2004 03:53
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Simple XML transformation advice needed
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am a novice with XSLT and would appreciate any help in 
> relation to a little problem I am having.
> 
> I have written a simple transformation XSL program that 
> trasforms an XML document into a slightly different document, 
> but I am having some trouble getting it right.
> 
> More details and the code is below.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Peter
> -----------------------------------------------
> PROBLEM: 
> 
> What I am trying to get the template to do is to take 
> something like this as input:
> 
> <ap:Text TextAlignment="urn:mindjet:Left" 
> Dirty="0000000000000001" PlainText="Motivation, research 
> problem and hypothesis 9"> <ap:Font Color="ff000000"/> </ap:Text>
> 
> And produce this as output:
> 
> <ap:Text TextAlignment="urn:mindjet:Left" 
> Dirty="0000000000000001"> <PlainText>Motivation, research 
> problem and hypothesis 9</PlainText> <ap:Font 
> Color="ff000000"/> </ap:Text>
> 
> Instead, it is producing this:
> 
> <ap:Text Dirty="0000000000000001">
> <PlainText>Motivation, research problem and hypothesis 
> 9</PlainText> <ap:Font Color="ff000000"/> </ap:Text>
> 
> In other words, I just want to take the PlainText attribute 
> and create a new element with it, not affecting any of the 
> other attributes.
> 
> Here is the code:
> 
> ---------------------
> <!-- AttrToElement.xsl: Turn all attributes into subelements 
> --> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
> xmlns:cor="http://schemas.mindjet.com/MindManager/Core/2003";
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
> xmlns:ap="http://schemas.mindjet.com/MindManager/Application/2003";
> version="1.0"
> >
> <!-- Import the identity transformation. -->
> 
> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
> 
> <xsl:output indent="yes"/>
> 
> <!-- Match any Attribute and turn it into an element -->
> 
> <xsl:template match="ap:Text/@PlainText">
> <xsl:element name="{name(.)}"><xsl:value-of 
> select="."/></xsl:element> </xsl:template>
> 
> 
> <xsl:template match="//cor:Base64">
>         <xsl:element name="{name(.)}">
> 
>                 <xsl:attribute name="xsi:nil"><xsl:value-of 
> select="@xsi:nil" /></xsl:attribute>
> 
>                 <xsl:attribute name="content"><xsl:value-of 
> select="." /></xsl:attribute>
> 
> </xsl:element>
> 
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="node()|@*">
> <!-- Copy the current node -->
> 
> <xsl:copy>
> <!-- Including any attributes it has and any child nodes --> 
> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> -------------------------------
> 
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