Re: [xsl] Copying and renaming an element/attribute

Subject: Re: [xsl] Copying and renaming an element/attribute
From: "Mark Peters" <flickrmeister@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 13:33:34 -0400
Amazing, Mukul! How did you work that out so quickly?

Many thanks.
Mark


On 7/8/06, Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Mark,
 Please try this stylesheet:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />

  <xsl:template match="topic">
    <topicref href="{@id}">
      <xsl:apply-templates />
    </topicref>
  </xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="text()" />

</xsl:stylesheet>

Regards,
Mukul

On 7/8/06, Mark Peters <flickrmeister@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm trying to copy a single element ("topic") and attribute ("id") to
> a new XML file, discarding all other elements and attributes. I'd also
> like to rename the topic element as topicref, and rename the id
> attribute as href.
>
>
> Input XML:
>
> <topic id="unique_id">
>        <title>Title</title>
>        <body>
>                <p>Some text.</p>
>        </body>
>        <topic id="unique_id">
>                <title>Title</title>
>                <body>
>                        <p>Some text.</p>
>                </body>
>        </topic>
>        <topic id="unique_id">
>                <title>Title</title>
>                <body>
>                        <p>Some text.</p>
>                </body>
>                <topic id="unique_id">
>                        <title>Title</title>
>                        <body>
>                                <p>Some text.</p>
>                        </body>
>                </topic>
>        </topic>
> </topic>
>
>
>
> Output XML:
>
> <topicref href="unique_id">
>        <topicref href="unique_id"/>
>        <topicref href="unique_id">
>                <topicref href="unique_id"/>
>        </topicref>
> </topicref>
>
>
> I've tried various value-of statements, which result in a simple list
> of topicref elements. The elements aren't nested. I'm trying to keep
> the original nesting.
>
> I've also tried xsl:copy (see below), but the output file only
> displays the first topic element. From what I've been reading, I think
> "topic" as an XPath statement should find all instances of that
> element -- although I've tried a few different XPath patterns, without
> success.
>
>
> Stylesheet:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0">
>        <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes"/>
>        <xsl:template match="node()|@*">
>                <xsl:copy>
>                        <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
>                        <xsl:apply-templates/>
>                </xsl:copy>
>        </xsl:template>
>        <xsl:template match="topic">
>                <topicref>
>                                        <xsl:attribute name="href">
>                        <xsl:for-each select="@id">
>                                <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>                        </xsl:for-each>
>                                         </xsl:attribute>
>                </topicref>
>        </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
>
> Could someone tell me what I'm missing?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark
>
> --
>
> Mark Peters
> Senior Technical Writer
> Saba Software




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Mark Peters
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