Re: [xsl] Hierarchy to Flat Structure

[Geert Bormans <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rick,

If you add a template for your root

   <xsl:template match="/Cases">
            <xsl:apply-templates />
    </xsl:template>

 you could simply do this

   <xsl:template match="*">
        <xsl:copy-of select="." />
    </xsl:template>

for covering all the sibling notes

I have two observations however.

- it is worth looking into so called "sibling recursion" for doing 
such a task in XSLT1.
I will post an example in a minute

- it is worth considering XSLT2 for this task. Let me know if that is 
a viable path.
It has grouping functionality built in for a task like this

Cheers

Geert




At 02:57 17/03/2013, you wrote:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>
>     <xsl:output indent="yes" />
>
>     <xsl:template match="Cases/Cases">
>     <Cases>
>         <xsl:apply-templates select="Category" />
>     </Cases>
>     </xsl:template>
>
>     <xsl:template match="Category">
>         <Case>
>             <Category><xsl:value-of select="." /></Category>
>             <xsl:apply-templates
>                 select="following-sibling::CaseTitle
>                 [generate-id(preceding-sibling::Category[1])
>                 = generate-id(current())]" />
>             <xsl:apply-templates
>                 select="following-sibling::Institution
>                 [generate-id(preceding-sibling::Category[1])
>                 = generate-id(current())]" />
>         </Case>
>     </xsl:template>
>
>     <xsl:template match="CaseTitle">
>         <xsl:copy-of select="." />
>     </xsl:template>
>
>     <xsl:template match="Institution">
>         <xsl:copy-of select="." />
>     </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>