Re: [xsl] How to change element nodes cases?

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

At 2003-03-30 17:42 -0800, Michael Liwanag wrote:
> How can I change this form:
> <customer> Michael </customer>
> to
> <Customer> Michael </Customer>

Remember with XSLT you are *not* changing nodes, you are building a result 
tree of nodes out of the source tree of nodes.

Therefore, in the push model, assuming you want attributes and content 
preserved, you would have a template for the result matched to the named 
node in the source:

  <xsl:template match="customer">
     <Customer>
       <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
       <xsl:copy-of select="node()"/>
     </Customer>
  </xsl:template>

If, however, you are changing the name on the way to the result while 
preserving the attributes, but also changing the names of other nodes on 
the way to the result, then you will need it to be slightly different as in 
the following modified node identity transform:

  <xsl:template match="@*|node()"><!--node identity transform-->
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="customer">
     <Customer>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
     </Customer>
  </xsl:template>
  ... other node templates follow...

(I haven't checked the above for typos....)

I hope this helps.

................ Ken


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