XSLT transforming flat xml with dot to hierarchical xml - xslt

Question

I want to transform below XML using XSLT. This XML elements has dots to represent hierarchy
<UsrEmployee>
<Code>70068579</Code>
<Initials>F</Initials>
<FirstName>Koichi</FirstName>
<Prefix></Prefix>
<LastName>Nakamura</LastName>
<PropertyRef>70068579</PropertyRef>
<SpaceRef.Code>001</SpaceRef.Code>
<SpaceRef.FloorRef.Code>01</SpaceRef.FloorRef.Code>
<SpaceRef.FloorRef.PropertyRef>70068579</SpaceRef.FloorRef.PropertyRef>
<SpaceRef.propertyRef>70068579</SpaceRef.propertyRef>
</UsrEmployee>
The above XML I want to transform as below XML, in the source XML element names can be any thing, number of dots(depth) is not known(not fixed). I want to create XSLT which would transform any generic XML of any size to hierarchical structure
<UsrEmployee>
<Code>70068579</Code>
<Initials>F</Initials>
<FirstName>Koichi</FirstName>
<Prefix></Prefix>
<LastName>Nakamura</LastName>
<SpaceRef>
<Code>001</Code>
<propertyRef>70068579</propertyRef>
<FloorRef>
<Code>01</Code>
<PropertyRef>70068579</PropertyRef>
</FloorRef>
</SpaceRef>
<PropertyRef>70068579</PropertyRef>
</UsrEmployee>
Can someone help me on this

Answer 1

Just create matching templates for your "dotted" elements and apply them.
Use select to control the "catch-all" identity template (the last template in the xslt)
Of course this may be an oversimplified solution and a more complex transformation will be needed if you have an arbitrary hierarchical structure where selecting your templates like this is not practicable.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="UsrEmployee">
<xsl:element name="UsrEmployee">
<xsl:apply-templates select="Code | Initials | FirstName | Prefix | LastName | PropertyRef" />
<xsl:element name="SpaceRef">
<xsl:apply-templates select="SpaceRef.Code | SpaceRef.propertyRef" />
<xsl:element name="FloorRef">
<xsl:apply-templates select="SpaceRef.FloorRef.Code | SpaceRef.FloorRef.PropertyRef" />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="SpaceRef.Code">
<xsl:element name="Code">
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="SpaceRef.propertyRef">
<xsl:element name="propertyRef">
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="SpaceRef.FloorRef.Code">
<xsl:element name="Code">
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="SpaceRef.FloorRef.PropertyRef">
<xsl:element name="PropertyRef">
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="#* | node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#* | node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>