RE: [xsl] Generic stylesheet to flatten XML hierarchy

[Sara Mitchell <samitchell6@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok. I don't really have real samples as this is meant to be generic but I do
have a handle on the potential structures that need to be flattened. 
So for
example, RSS which looks like this: 

/rss (some attributes)
  /channel (some
attributes)
    /title
    /link
    /...more siblings that are not repeating
/item (repeat starts)
      /title
      /description (w/mixed content)
/pubdate
      /link
      /...more children some have descendants but no more
repeats
   /item ...
   ...

If this gets converted to XML it should look on
output like this: 
<root>
<row>
<rss-attr1>value</rss-attr1>

--- On Thu,
12/3/09, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Michael Kay
<mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: [xsl] Generic stylesheet to flatten XML
hierarchy
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, December 3,
2009, 3:54 PM
> > 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. 
> > 
> 
> The hard part of the problem is specifying what you want
to
> happen. Once
> you've done that, I would think that coding it is fairly
>
easy.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 
> 
> 
> 
>
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