[xsl] Re: Modification to The CSV to XML transform XSLT v2 from Andrew Welch

["Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 27/03/2008, Marney Cotterill <marney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  And the output XML I get from my test CSV using the above stylesheet is:
>
>  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
>  <root>
>     <row>
>         <elem name="classDay">Monday</elem>
>         <elem naem="classTime">11am</elem>
>     </row>
>     <row>
>         <elem name="classDay">Tuesday</elem>
>         <elem naem="classTime">12pm</elem>
>     </row>
>  </root>
>
>  So hence, what I would like is for the output to be:
>  ....
>     <row>
>         <classDay>Monday</classDay>
>         <classTime>11am</classTime>.......etc
>
>  Can we just modify this portion of the stylesheet:
>
>                 <elem name="{.}">
>                 <xsl:value-of select="$lineItems[$pos]" />
>                 </elem>

Sure, just change it to:

<xsl:element name="{.}">
   <xsl:value-of select="$lineItems[$pos]" />
</xsl:element>

...but it will fail for any column names that aren't valid XML Names,
which is why the name is put in an attribute.

If you do have problems, I would recommend leaving this transform
as-is, then running another transform over the result to convert the
attributes values to element names which handles any problem names.


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