Re: [xsl] Generic stylesheet to flatten XML hierarchy

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2009-12-03 10:50 -0800, Sara Mitchell wrote:
> I've been wandering through the archives and other searches and so 
> far have not found exactly what I am hoping to find. I need to write 
> an XSLT stylesheet that accepts an unknown XML document and flattens 
> the hierarchy to a two-dimensional row/columns structure.
>
> I know the basics, especially when you know the input structure, but 
> this has to be completely generic. The input document may have any 
> level of repeating node sets, including none. I believe we can 
> ignore (at least for the moment) mixed content. I'm getting stuck on 
> the logic to handle the issue of any level of repeating nodes.
>
> Does anyone know of an example of anything approaching this?

I published one at the request of a fellow UBL committee member:

    http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/resources/ublss/#ublcodex

... you may find the "push" technique used there will guide you.

Another example is the SHOWTREE stylesheet:

    http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/resources/#showtree

I hope these help.

. . . . . . . . . Ken

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