Could you help me with create a code which would be able to convert data as below.
I need to add one level to data contained in entry. Data come from multivalued attribute but are writing as single row. I don't know how to do this and asking for your help.
I have this code but it doesn't work as I expect. If don't know XLST so this is a reason why I ask.
<entry>
<c>PL</c>
<cn>dackjo</cn>
<department>FO</department>
<givenName>Joe</givenName>
<plant>Berlin</plant>
<plant>Praga</plant>
<sec>admin</sec>
<sec>worker</sec>
<ou>PL</ou>
<sn>Dack</sn>
<title>worker</title>
<preferredLanguage>EN</preferredLanguage>
<uid>u12c55cb--4efe</uid>
<timezone>CET</timezone>
</entry>
I have to convert values as above to format below. We need to add one
level and group multivalues behind it.
expected output:
<entry>
<c>PL</c>
<cn>dackjo</cn>
<department>FO</department>
<givenName>Joe</givenName>
<Plants>
<plant>Berlin</plant>
<plant>Praga</plant>
</Plants>
<SecRoles>
<sec>admin</sec>
<sec>admin</sec>
</SecRoles>
<ou>PL</ou>
<sn>Dack</sn>
<title>worker</title>
<preferredLanguage>EN</preferredLanguage>
<uid>u12c55cb--4efe</uid>
<timezone>CET</timezone>
</entry>
An output similar - but not identical - to yours could be produced using:
XSLT 2.0
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/entry">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="* except plant"/>
<Plants>
<xsl:copy-of select="plant"/>
</Plants>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
--
Demo: https://xsltfiddle.liberty-development.net/bET2rWW
My solution for this topic. Maybe not sophisticated but it works at the moment.
<xsl:template match="entry">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="UserName"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="isRetired" />
<xsl:copy-of select="Language"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="FirstName" />
<xsl:copy-of select="LastName"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="Email" />
<xsl:copy-of select="EmployeeCode"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="ExEmployee" />
<xsl:copy-of select="MobilePhone"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="JobTitle" />
<xsl:copy-of select="Location"/>
<Plants>
<xsl:copy-of select="Plant" />
</Plants>
<Security>
<xsl:copy-of select="Role" />
</Security>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
Thank you for any help.
Related
I coded the XSLT to copy one node data to another by validating the attribute value, I got the desired output but I'm curious to know whether there is an efficient way to do this or if this is the only way to do it. [I'm not an XSLT expert] Can someone help !!!
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https://xsltfiddle.liberty-development.net/pNvtBH2/3
Actual XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<section>
<p>note 1 : 1</p>
<p>note 2 : 2</p>
<p>note 3 : 3</p>
<note id="test1">hello one</note>
<note id="test2">hello two</note>
<note id="test3">hello <i>three</i></note>
<note id="test4">hello <i>four</i></note>
</section>
Output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><section>
<p>note 1 : <a>hello one</a></p>
<p>note 2 : <a>hello two</a></p>
<p>note 3 : <a>hello <i>three</i></a></p>
<note id="test4">hello <i>four</i></note>
</section>
XSLT Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
exclude-result-prefixes="#all"
version="3.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" />
<xsl:template match="#*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="a">
<a>
<xsl:variable name="href" select="#href" />
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$href = //note/#id">
<xsl:copy-of select="//note[#id=$href]/node()" />
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</a>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="note">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="#id = //a/#href">
<xsl:apply-templates select="node" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Whether it's efficient or not depends on how smart the optimizer in your XSLT processor is. Saxon-EE will do a pretty good job on this, Saxon-HE less so.
If you want to make it efficient on all processors, use keys. Replace an expression like //note[#id=$href] with a call on the key() function. Declare the key as
<xsl:key name="k" match="note" use="id"/>
and then you can get the matching nodes using key('k', $href).
The xsl:when test="$href = //note/#id" is redundant, as xsl:copy-of will do nothing if nothing is selected.
In the note template, I'm not sure what
<xsl:when test="#id = //a/#href">
<xsl:apply-templates select="node" />
</xsl:when>
is trying to achieve, because you don't have any elements named "node". If the aim is to avoid processing a note element at this stage if it was already processed from an a element, then you could build another index with
<xsl:key name="a" match="a" use="1"/>
and replace test="#id = //a/#href" with test="key('a', #href)"
I have one xml A and want to create a new xml B. The outer elements of B are different from A, but some of the child nodes are the same. I have written an XSL file but am struggling to get it right. Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong? How do I copy individual elements from A to B? The issue is, when the transformation happens, the text in A is copied to B. Looking at previous stack overflow questions, this is because there is an error in my xsl but I cant figure out what.
A:
<Request>
<Source>
<RequestorID Client="1" EMailAddress="test#test.com" Password="pwd"/>
<RequestorPreferences Country="JP" Currency="jpy" Language="en">
<RequestMode>SYNCHRONOUS</RequestMode>
</RequestorPreferences>
</Source>
<RequestDetails>
<SearchHotelPriceRequest>
<ItemDestination DestinationCode="LON" DestinationType="city"/>
<ItemCode>98i</ItemCode>
<PeriodOfStay>
<CheckInDate>2015-05-20</CheckInDate>
<CheckOutDate>2015-05-21</CheckOutDate>
</PeriodOfStay>
<IncludePriceBreakdown/>
<IncludeChargeConditions/>
<Rooms>
<Room Code="tb" NumberOfCots="0" NumberOfRooms="1">
<ExtraBeds/>
</Room>
</Rooms>
</SearchHotelPriceRequest>
</RequestDetails>
</Request>
B:
<WebRequest>
<RequestDetails>
<WebSearchHotelPriceRequest
CallCentreClientUI="2577"
Client="1"
Country="JP"
Currency="jpy"
Language="en"
LoginID="">
<GcPriceOptions ShowDeduped="true"/>
<ItemDestination DestinationCode="LON" DestinationType="city"/>
<ItemName></ItemName>
<ItemCode>98i</ItemCode>
<EffectiveDate>2014-08-15</EffectiveDate>
<StarRatingRange>
<Min>0</Min>
<Max>0</Max>
</StarRatingRange>
<PeriodOfStay>
<CheckInDate>2015-05-20</CheckInDate>
<CheckOutDate>2015-05-21</CheckOutDate>
</PeriodOfStay>
<IncludeChargeConditions/>
<Rooms>
<Room Code="tb" NumberOfRooms="1"></Room>
</Rooms>
<SiteId>008</SiteId>
</WebSearchHotelPriceRequest>
</RequestDetails>
</WebRequest>
XSL:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="Request">
<xsl:element name="WebRequest">
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="RequestDetails">
<xsl:element name="RequestDetails">
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="SearchHotelPriceRequest">
<xsl:element name="WebSearchHotelPriceRequest">
<xsl:attribute name="CallCentreClientUI">1</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="Client">1</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="Country">UK</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="Currency">GBP</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="Language">EN</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="LoginID">100</xsl:attribute>
<SiteId>001</SiteId>
<EffectiveDate>01-01-99</EffectiveDate>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="ItemDestination">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="#*" />
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="ItemCode">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="#*" />
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="ItemName">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="#*" />
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="PeriodOfStay">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="node()" />
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="IncludeChargeConditions">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="node()" />
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Rooms">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="node()" />
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Incorrect Output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<WebRequest>SYNCHRONOUS<RequestDetails>
<WebSearchHotelPriceRequest CallCentreClientUI="1" Client="1" Country="UK" Currency="GBP" Language="EN" LoginID="100">
<SiteId>001</SiteId>
<EffectiveDate>01-01-99</EffectiveDate>
<ItemDestination DestinationCode="LON" DestinationType="city"/>
<ItemCode>98i</ItemCode>
<PeriodOfStay>
<CheckInDate>2015-05-20</CheckInDate>
<CheckOutDate>2015-05-21</CheckOutDate>2015-05-202015-05-21</PeriodOfStay>
<IncludeChargeConditions/>
<Rooms>
<Room Code="tb" NumberOfCots="0" NumberOfRooms="1">
<ExtraBeds/>
</Room>
</Rooms>
</WebSearchHotelPriceRequest>
</RequestDetails>
</WebRequest>
I think you are making this much more complicated than it needs to be. The simplest way to copy elements (along with all they contain, i.e. "deep copy") is to use xsl:copy-of. Also, you don't need to use xsl:element if you know the name of the element; just output the element literally. Similarly, for xsl:attribute you can write it directly and - if necessary - use attribute value template to insert the value from the input.
Have a look at the following stylesheet as an example:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<WebRequest>
<xsl:for-each select="Request/RequestDetails/SearchHotelPriceRequest">
<RequestDetails>
<WebSearchHotelPriceRequest
CallCentreClientUI="2577"
Client="2577"
Country="J"
Currency="USD"
Language="E"
LoginID="">
<GcPriceOptions ShowDeduped="true"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="ItemDestination"/>
<ItemName></ItemName>
<xsl:copy-of select="ItemCode"/>
<EffectiveDate>2014-08-15</EffectiveDate>
<StarRatingRange>
<Min>0</Min>
<Max>0</Max>
</StarRatingRange>
<xsl:copy-of select="PeriodOfStay | IncludeChargeConditions | Rooms"/>
<SiteId>008</SiteId>
</WebSearchHotelPriceRequest>
</RequestDetails>
</xsl:for-each>
</WebRequest>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
This is of course not exactly what you need, but I don't know which values go where.
If someone could tell me why the extra text (e.g. SYNCHRONOUS) is
being erroneously copied?
Because you are using xsl:apply templates indiscriminately - and text nodes are copied by default using the built-in templates.
I have a XSL that needs to filter out specific data found in the XML.
Somewhere in my XML there will be a node like:
<id root="2.16.840.1.113883.3.51.1.1.6.1" extension="9494949494949" />
The XSL I have below deletes the extension node and adds a nullFlavor="MSK" to the node.
What I need to do now, is take the value from the extension node, and search the entire XML document for that value, and replace it with **.
But I'm not sure how to take the extension attribute, and find all instances of that value in the XML (they could be burried in text and inside attributes) and turn them into ** (4 *).
The example below is just an example. I cannot hard code the XSL to look at specific nodes, it needs to look through all text / attribute text in the xml (reason for this is there are 5+ different versions of XML that this will be applied to).
I need to find the Extension in the node, then replace (delete really) that value from the rest of the XML. I'm looking for a 1 solution fits all messages, so a global search->wipe of the Extension value.
Example:
<identifiedPerson classCode="IDENT">
<id root="2.16.840.1.113883.3.51.1.1.6.1" extension="9494949494949" displayable="true" />
<addr use="PHYS">
<city>KAMLOOPS</city>
<country>CA</country>
<postalCode>V1B3C1</postalCode>
<state>BC</state>
<streetAddressLine>1A</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>2A</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>9494949494949</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>4A</streetAddressLine>
</addr>
<note text="9494949494949 should be stars"/>
Should be (The below XSLT already masks the extension in the node with the matching OID).
<identifiedPerson classCode="IDENT">
<id root="2.16.840.1.113883.3.51.1.1.6.1" nullFlavor="MSK" displayable="true" />
<addr use="PHYS">
<city>KAMLOOPS</city>
<country>CA</country>
<postalCode>V1B3C1</postalCode>
<state>BC</state>
<streetAddressLine>1A</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>2A</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>****</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>4A</streetAddressLine>
</addr>
<note text="**** should be stars"/>
Any help would be appreciated.
I am able to use XSL 2.0
I have the current XSL.IT works fine. It matches any tag where the root is '2.16.840.1.113883.3.51.1.1.6.1', kills all attributes and adds a nullFlavor="MSK". However, this will not search the entire XML for that same #.
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:param name="attrToKeep" select="'root'" />
<xsl:template match="* | node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="#*">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="../#root = '2.16.840.1.113883.3.51.1.1.6.1'">
<xsl:copy-of select=".[contains($attrToKeep, name())]" />
<xsl:attribute name="nullFlavor">MSK</xsl:attribute>
<!-- Need some way to use the value found in this node and hide the extension -->
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:copy-of select="." />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Try using a variable to hold the value of the text to be replaced. Like this:
<xsl:variable
name="rootVar"
select="//*[#root = '2.16.840.1.113883.3.51.1.1.6.1']/#extension" />
And then you should just be able to use the replace function to replace them.
<xsl:template match="'//#*' | text()">
<xsl:sequence select="replace(., $rootVar, '****')"/>
</xsl:template>
The XSLT 2.0 stylesheet
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="2.0">
<xsl:param name="replacement" select="'****'"/>
<xsl:param name="new" select="'MKS'"/>
<xsl:template match="#* | node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#* | node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="identifiedPerson">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#* , node()">
<xsl:with-param name="to-be-replaced" select="id/#extension" tunnel="yes"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="identifiedPerson//text()">
<xsl:param name="to-be-replaced" tunnel="yes"/>
<xsl:sequence select="replace(., $to-be-replaced, $replacement)"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="identifiedPerson//#*">
<xsl:param name="to-be-replaced" tunnel="yes"/>
<xsl:attribute name="{name()}" namespace="{namespace-uri()}" select="replace(., $to-be-replaced, $replacement)"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="identifiedPerson/id">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*"/>
<xsl:attribute name="nullFlavor" select="$new"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="identifiedPerson/id/#extension"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>
transforms
<identifiedPerson classCode="IDENT">
<id root="2.16.840.1.113883.3.51.1.1.6.1" extension="9494949494949" displayable="true" />
<addr use="PHYS">
<city>KAMLOOPS</city>
<country>CA</country>
<postalCode>V1B3C1</postalCode>
<state>BC</state>
<streetAddressLine>1A</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>2A</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>9494949494949</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>4A</streetAddressLine>
</addr>
<note text="9494949494949 should be stars"/>
</identifiedPerson>
with Saxon 9.4 into
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><identifiedPerson classCode="IDENT">
<id root="2.16.840.1.113883.3.51.1.1.6.1" displayable="true" nullFlavor="MKS"/>
<addr use="PHYS">
<city>KAMLOOPS</city>
<country>CA</country>
<postalCode>V1B3C1</postalCode>
<state>BC</state>
<streetAddressLine>1A</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>2A</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>****</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>4A</streetAddressLine>
</addr>
<note text="**** should be stars"/>
</identifiedPerson>
So for the sample it solves that problem I think. I am not sure whether there can be more context around that sample and whether you want to change values outside of the identifiedPerson element as well or don't want to change them (which above stylesheet does). If other elements also need to be changed consider to post longer input and wanted result samples to illustrate and also explain what determines the node where the value to be replaced is found.
[edit]
Based on your comment I adapted the stylesheet, it now has a parameter to pass in a id (e.g. 2.16.840.1.113883.3.51.1.1.6.1), then it looks for an element of any name with a root attribute having that passed in id value and replaces the extension attribute value found in all attributes and all text nodes found in the document. Furthermore a nullFlavor attribute is added to the element with the id and its extension attribute is removed.
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="2.0">
<xsl:param name="root-id" select="'2.16.840.1.113883.3.51.1.1.6.1'"/>
<xsl:variable name="to-be-replaced" select="//*[#root = $root-id]/#extension"/>
<xsl:param name="replacement" select="'****'"/>
<xsl:param name="new" select="'MKS'"/>
<xsl:template match="comment() | processing-instruction()">
<xsl:copy/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#* , node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text()">
<xsl:sequence select="replace(., $to-be-replaced, $replacement)"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="#*">
<xsl:attribute name="{name()}" namespace="{namespace-uri()}" select="replace(., $to-be-replaced, $replacement)"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*[#root = $root-id]">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*"/>
<xsl:attribute name="nullFlavor" select="$new"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*[#root = $root-id]/#extension"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I need to change namespaces in the root element as follows:
input document:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<foo xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9 http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"
xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
desired output:
<foo audience="external" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9
http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
instance" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9">
I was trying to do it as I copy over the whole document and before I give any other transformation instructions, but the following doesn't work:
<xsl:template match="* | processing-instruction() | comment()">
<xsl:copy copy-namespaces="no">
<xsl:for-each select=".">
<xsl:attribute name="audience" select="'external'"/>
<xsl:namespace name="xlink" select="'http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink'"/>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:copy-of select="#*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
Thanks for any advice!
XSLT 2.0 isn't necessary to solve this problem.
Here is an XSLT 1.0 solution, which works equally well as XSLT 2.0 (just change the version attribute to 2.0):
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
exclude-result-prefixes="xlink"
>
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="node()|#*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/*">
<xsl:element name="{name()}" namespace="{namespace-uri()}">
<xsl:copy-of select=
"namespace::*
[not(name()='ns2')
and
not(name()='')
]"/>
<xsl:copy-of select=
"document('')/*/namespace::*[name()='xlink']"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="#*"/>
<xsl:attribute name="audience">external</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
When the above transformation is applied on this XML document:
<foo
xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9 http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"
xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>
the wanted result is produced:
<foo xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9 http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"
audience="external"/>
You should really be using the "identity template" for this, and you should always have it on hand. Create an XSLT with that template, call it "identity.xslt", then into the current XSLT. Assume the prefix "bad" for the namespace you want to replace, and "good" for the one you want to replace it with, then all you need is a template like this (I'm at work, so forgive the formatting; I'll get back to this when I'm at home): ... If that doesn't work in XSLT 1.0, use a match expression like "*[namespace-uri() = 'urn:bad-namespace'", and follow Dimitre's instructions for creating a new element programmatically. Within , you really need to just apply-template recursively...but really, read up on the identity template.
I'm not sure if that is possible, as I'm very new to XSLT and stuff, but maybe some of you could help me here? It's a bit tricky and I haven't found anything like it on the internet:
The problem is that I have an input xml with namespaces declared and all and I only need to make slight changes to it (adding or deleting attributes, or shifting them to other locations). But at the same time, I have to update the namespace references in the document's document tag. So, for example, the input xml might look something like this:
<order
xmlns="some.url.01"
xmlns:ns2="some.other.url"
xmlns:ns3="another.one"
>
<orderEntry>
<orderControl>
<mandant>test</mandant>
<businessUnit>test</businessUnit>
<inboundChannel>test</inboundChannel>
<timestamp>timestamp</timestamp>
<requestedDocuments>
<ns2:document>orderForm</ns2:document>
</requestedDocuments>
</orderControl>
</orderEntry>
</order>
the resulting xml should look like this:
<order
xmlns="some.url.02"
xmlns:ns2="some.other.url.02"
xmlns:ns3="another.one.02"
>
<orderEntry>
<orderControl>
<mandant>test</mandant>
<businessUnit>test</businessUnit>
<inboundChannel>test</inboundChannel>
<!-- deleted timestamp for example -->
<requestedDocuments>
<ns2:document>orderForm</ns2:document>
</requestedDocuments>
</orderControl>
</orderEntry>
</order>
but the only thing I get is:
<order
xmlns="some.url.02"
>
<orderEntry>
<orderControl>
<mandant>test</mandant>
<businessUnit>test</businessUnit>
<inboundChannel>test</inboundChannel>
<!-- deleted timestamp for example -->
<requestedDocuments>
<ns2:document xmlns:ns2="some.other.url.02">orderForm</ns2:document>
</requestedDocuments>
</orderControl>
</orderEntry>
</order>
Now maybe for one or two of you it might not be that big a deal, but I have the restriction that the output document should look one-to-one the same as the input document except for the requested changes (namespace changes and deletion).
My XSLT looks a like this:
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="some.url.02"
xmlns:ns2="some.other.url.02"
xmlns:ns3="another.one.02"
>
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="name(.) != 'timestamp'">
<xsl:element name="{node-name(.)}">
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="#*">
<xsl:attribute name="{node-name(.)}">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Can somebody please help? Namespaces are tricky :(
P.S.: Whoever edited my entry: Thanks :)
You can set the namespace on the output element with the namespace attribute:
<xsl:element name="{node-name(.)}" namespace="http://www.bar.org">
// ...
</xsl:element>
Note that the namespace must be a URI and although I expect you know this it's probably a good idea to use URIs in your example.
Here is a link to the excellent ZVON tutorial which has worked examples:
http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XSLTreference/Output/xslt_element_namespace.html
I agree that namespaces are tricky. As you know the prefix is semantically irrelevant, but many systems allow you to choose your prefix for aesthetic reasons. Also look at Saxon (http://saxon.sourceforge.net/)
EDIT I think you will find your answer here:
XSLT root tag namespace instead of element attribute namespace
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:ns1_src="some.url.01"
xmlns:ns2_src="some.other.url"
xmlns:ns3_src="another.one"
xmlns="some.url.02"
xmlns:ns2="some.other.url.02"
xmlns:ns3="another.one.02"
>
<!--
Note that all the source namespaces got their own new "*_src" prefix.
The target namespaces take over the original prefixes.
"some.url.02" is the new global namespace.
-->
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<!-- the identity template to copy everything, unless
it has been declared otherwise -->
<xsl:template match="node() | #*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node() | #*" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<!-- three templates to handle elements -->
<xsl:template match="ns1_src:*">
<xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
<xsl:apply-templates select="node() | #*" />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="ns2_src:*">
<xsl:element name="ns2:{local-name()}">
<xsl:apply-templates select="node() | #*" />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="ns3_src:*">
<xsl:element name="ns3:{local-name()}">
<xsl:apply-templates select="node() | #*" />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<!-- three templates to handle attributes -->
<xsl:template match="#ns1_src:*">
<xsl:attribute name="{local-name()}">
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="#ns2_src:*">
<xsl:attribute name="ns2:{local-name()}">
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="#ns3_src:*">
<xsl:attribute name="ns3:{local-name()}">
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>
<!-- timestamps will be ignored -->
<xsl:template match="ns1_src:timestamp" />
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<order xmlns="some.url.02">
<orderEntry>
<orderControl>
<mandant>test</mandant>
<businessUnit>test</businessUnit>
<inboundChannel>test</inboundChannel>
<requestedDocuments>
<ns2:document xmlns:ns2="some.other.url.02">orderForm</ns2:document>
</requestedDocuments>
</orderControl>
</orderEntry>
</order>
<xsl:template match="a:*">
<xsl:element name="{local-name()}"
namespace="http://example.com/B">
<xsl:copy-of select="#*" />
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
It searches for any element in namespace with prefix a and replaces it with an element with the same name of namespace http://example.com/B. All attributes are copied 'as is' and then all children are evaluated.
Add your custom processing in or around that as needed.
Are you using Ant's XSLT task to do your transformation?
If the answer is yes, you may want to switch from the default XSLT engine that comes with Sun JDK 1.5+. Read this.
Also, read this article about namespaces in XSLT