I have an incoming XML document. I just need to modify value of one element example <ID> element in this below incoming XML document. I basically need to check for element called <ID> if the value is without any hyphen it will take as it is and if the value contains hyphen(-) then i need to take the value before hyphen (-) ex- 4314141
Incoming XML document:
<Message>
<ID>4314141-324234</ID>
<EMAIL>abc</EMAIL>
</Message>
I am using this below XSL to do do this but it is not working as expected.
XSL:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:dp="http://www.datapower.com/extensions"
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
extension-element-prefixes="dp"
exclude-result-prefixes="dp" >
<xsl:variable name="uuid" select="dp:variable('var://context/txn/uuid')" />
<xsl:template match="#*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/ID">
<xsl:copy>
<ID><xsl:value-of select="substring-before($ID, ' -')" /></ID>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="ID"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Let me know how i can do this.
without any hyphen it will take as it is
This will do your identity-copy template.
if the value contains hyphen(-) then i need to take the value before hyphen (-)
<xsl:template match="ID[contains(., '-')]">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(., '-')" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
Friendly advice: Please be carefull with / in your matching patterns.
Just use this template overriding the identity rule:
<xsl:template match="ID/text()[contains(., '-')]">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(., '-')"/>
</xsl:template>
Here is the complete transformation:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="node()|#*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="ID/text()[contains(., '-')]">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(., '-')"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
when applied on the provided XML document:
<Message>
<ID>4314141-324234</ID>
<EMAIL>abc</EMAIL>
</Message>
the wanted, correct result is produced:
<Message>
<ID>4314141</ID>
<EMAIL>abc</EMAIL>
</Message>
Related
is there any chance can sending value to output other node response, with different path from there input request. i have input and response tag like this
Input Request:
<Root>
<Items>
<Item1>Rambutan12</Item1>
</Items>
</Root>
and i try with this code for add new node with additional info at Response
i try like this
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<Root>
<ItemsResponse>
<xsl:call-templates select="items">
<xsl:with-param name="item1s" select="//Root/Items/Item1"/>
</xsl:call-templates>
</ItemsResponse>
</Root>
</xst:template>
<xsl:template name="items">
<xsl:param name="item1s"/>
<xsl:variable name="information">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="fn:matches($item1s, '^[a-zA-Z]*$') ">
<Item1><xsl:value-of select="$item1s"/></Item1>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:copy>
<Item1><xsl:value-of select="$item1s"/></Item1>
<xsl:apply-templates select="Item1Information"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="#*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Item1Information">
<xsl:copy>
<Item1Information>Wrong Failed Format Input</Item1Information>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Expected Result was like this
<Root>
<ItemsResponse>
<Item1>Rambutan12</Item1>
<Item1Information>Input Failed Format</ItemInformation>
</ItemsResponse>
</Root>
Any tips like for this case, thanks
It is very difficult to understand what your question is.
On the off-chance that I am guessing correctly, and that you want to add an error warning when Item1 contains any characters other than the 26 letters of the English alphabet, then you could do simply:
XSLT 1.0
<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="/Root">
<Root>
<ItemsResponse>
<xsl:copy-of select="Items/Item1"/>
<xsl:if test="translate(Items/Item1, 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', '')">
<Item1Information>Input Failed Format</Item1Information>
</xsl:if>
</ItemsResponse>
</Root>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Using XSLT 1.0 I would like to comment out certain XML elements and replace other XML elements, while keeping the XML nicely formatted.
For example, the following XML document
<doc>
<e1>foo</e1>
<e2>bar</e2>
</doc>
should be converted to
<doc>
<!--<e1>foo</e1>-->
<e3>foobar</e3>
<e4>foobar</e4>
</doc>
I am using the following XSL transformation and xsltproc for testing it:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:strip-space elements="*" />
<xsl:output indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="node()|#*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="e1">
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><!--</xsl:text> <!--*-->
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:copy>
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">--></xsl:text> <!--*-->
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="e2">
<e3>foobar</e3><e4>foobar</e4>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
But what I get is this:
<doc><!--<e1>foo</e1>--><e3>foobar</e3><e4>foobar</e4></doc>
The problem seems to be caused by the lines marked with '*' in my transformation; more specifically from inserting <!-- and -->. When I remove these two elements, the result is indented as expected.
Is there a way to wrap elements in comments while still keeping the output document nicely formatted?
Try whether outputting a comment with the serialization of the element, as in
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:import href="http://lenzconsulting.com/xml-to-string/xml-to-string.xsl"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:output indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="node()|#*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="e1">
<xsl:comment>
<xsl:call-template name="xml-to-string"></xsl:call-template>
</xsl:comment>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="e2">
<e3>foobar</e3><e4>foobar</e4>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
gives you a better result.
I had an xml of the following pattern
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Person>
<FirstName>Ahmed</FirstName>
<MiddleName/>
<LastName>Aboulnaga</LastName>
<CompanyInfo>
<CompanyName>IPN Web</CompanyName>
<Title/>
<Role></Role>
<Department>
</Department>
</CompanyInfo>
</Person>
I used the following xslt (got from forums) in my attempt to remove empty tags
<xsl:template match="#*|node()">
<xsl:if test=". != '' or ./#* != ''">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select = "#*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:if>
The xslt used is successful in removing tags like
<Title/>
<Role></Role>
...but fails when empty tags are on two lines, eg:
<Department>
</Department>
Is there any fix for this?
This transformation doesn't need any conditional XSLT instructions at all and uses no explicit priorities:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="node()|#*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match=
"*[not(#*|*|comment()|processing-instruction())
and normalize-space()=''
]"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>
When applied on the provided XML document:
<Person>
<FirstName>Ahmed</FirstName>
<MiddleName/>
<LastName>Aboulnaga</LastName>
<CompanyInfo>
<CompanyName>IPN Web</CompanyName>
<Title/>
<Role></Role>
<Department>
</Department>
</CompanyInfo>
</Person>
it produces the wanted, correct result:
<Person>
<FirstName>Ahmed</FirstName>
<LastName>Aboulnaga</LastName>
<CompanyInfo>
<CompanyName>IPN Web</CompanyName>
</CompanyInfo>
</Person>
<xsl:template match="#*|node()">
<xsl:if test="normalize-space(.) != '' or ./#* != ''">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select = "#*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
(..) Is there any fix for this?
The tag on two lines is not an empty tag. It is a tag containing spaces inside (like new lines and possibly some kind of white space characters). The XPath 1.0 function normalize-space() allows you to normalize the content of your tags by stripping unwanted new lines.
Once you have applied the function to the tag content you can then check for the empty string. A good way to do this is by applying the XPath 1.0 boolean() function to the tag content. If the content is a zero-length string its result will be false.
Finally you can embed everything slightly changing your identity transform. You do not need xsl:if instructions or any other additional template.
The final transform will look like this:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="node()|#*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates
select="node()[boolean(normalize-space())]
|#*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Additional note
Your xsl:if instruction is currently checking also for empty attributes. In that way you are actually removing also non-empy tags with empty attributes. It does not sound like just "Removing empty tags". So be careful, or you question is missing some detail, or you are using unsafe code.
Your question is underspecified. What does empty mean? Is <outer> empty here?
<outer><inner/></outer>
Anyway, here's one approach that might fit your bill:
<xsl:template match="*[not(.//#*) and not( normalize-space() )]" priority="3"/>
Note you might have to tweak the priority to fit your needs.
From what I have found on the net, this is the most correct answer:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:if test=".!=''">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="#*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
You can use the following xslt to remove empty tags/attributes:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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="node()">
<xsl:if test="normalize-space(string(.)) != ''
or count(#*[normalize-space(string(.)) != '']) > 0
or count(descendant::*[normalize-space(string(.)) != '']) > 0
or count(descendant::*/#*[normalize-space(string(.)) != '']) > 0">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="#*">
<xsl:if test="normalize-space(string(.)) != ''">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
My problem is that in some xml files an element exists and in another it does not.
When the element exists, it's value should be changed. If it does not exists, it should be added.
Here is an example for better understanding:
<root>
<group>
<element1>SomeValue1</element1>
<element2>SomeValue2</element2>
</group>
</root>
Let's say I always want element1, element2 and element3 with the values Changed1, Changed2, Changed3.
It should end up like this:
<root>
<group>
<element1>Changed1</element1>
<element2>Changed2</element2>
<element3>Changed3</element3>
</group>
</root>
What can I do to make it happen?
Thanking you in anticipation
Dennis
I'm not sure if it's the most elegant solution in the world, but I think this would probably do what you're after:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<!-- If the element exists, do what you want to do -->
<xsl:template match="element1">
<xsl:copy>Changed1</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="element2">
<xsl:copy>Changed2</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="element3">
<xsl:copy>Changed3</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<!-- If the element doesn't exist, add it -->
<xsl:template match="group">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
<xsl:if test="not(element1)">
<element1>Changed1</element1>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="not(element2)">
<element2>Changed2</element2>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="not(element3)">
<element3>Changed3</element3>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<!-- Identity transform -->
<xsl:template match="#*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Anything which isn't explicitly matched should just copy across untouched.
Of course, if the values are constant (that is, element1, element2 and element3 will always have the same values regardless of whether they're new or updated) then you can have something simpler:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<!-- If the element exists, remove it -->
<xsl:template match="element1 | element2 | element3"/>
<!-- Now put in your preferred elements -->
<xsl:template match="group">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
<element1>Changed1</element1>
<element2>Changed2</element2>
<element3>Changed3</element3>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<!-- Identity transform -->
<xsl:template match="#*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Which essentially removes the original "element" nodes and puts yours in in their place.
Here is a more generic solution. The names of the elements can be specified separately from the code:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:my="my:my" exclude-result-prefixes="my">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<my:newValues>
<element1>Changed1</element1>
<element2>Changed2</element2>
<element3>Changed3</element3>
</my:newValues>
<xsl:variable name="vElements" select="document('')/*/my:newValues/*"/>
<xsl:template match="*" name="identity" mode="copy">
<xsl:element name="{name()}">
<xsl:copy-of select="namespace::*[not(name()='my' or name()='xsl')]"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:if test="not($vElements[name()=name(current())])">
<xsl:call-template name="identity"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="group">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="$vElements" mode="copy"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
when this transformation is applied on the provided XML document:
<root>
<group>
<element1>SomeValue1</element1>
<element2>SomeValue2</element2>
</group>
</root>
the wanted, correct result is produced:
<root>
<group>
<element1>Changed1</element1>
<element2>Changed2</element2>
<element3>Changed3</element3>
</group>
</root>
Note: The seemingly complicated processing that discards the "xsl" anf "my" namespaces is unnecessary when the to-be-modified elements are in their separate document. This code intentionally puts the to-be-modified elements in the same document as the xslt stylesheet for demonstration purposes. In practice, just an <xsl:copy-of select="$vModifiedDoc/*"> will be used.
Your example might be oversimplified. It looks like you can just generate the 3 "changed" values for every element you encounter... so I'm guessing it's a bit more complicated than that in real life.
In any case, if the changed value is not a replacement but actually a modification of the original value, you can probably use a for-each on groups and then generate the 3 elements, where the value of each element is based on an xsl-if element that checks whether the original value exists and uses it if so.
Just for fun, an XSLT 2.0 solution:
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:variable name="vAdd" as="element()*">
<element1>Changed1</element1>
<element2>Changed2</element2>
<element3>Changed3</element3>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:template match="node()|#*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="group/*[name()=$vAdd/name()]"/>
<xsl:template match="group/*[last()]" priority="1">
<xsl:next-match/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="$vAdd"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<root>
<group>
<element1>Changed1</element1>
<element2>Changed2</element2>
<element3>Changed3</element3>
</group>
</root>
I have an XML document, and I want to change the values for one of the attributes.
First I copied everything from input to output using:
<xsl:template match="#*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
And now I want to change the value of the attribute "type" in any element named "property".
This problem has a classical solution: Using and overriding the identity template is one of the most fundamental and powerful XSLT design patterns:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:param name="pNewType" select="'myNewType'"/>
<xsl:template match="node()|#*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="property/#type">
<xsl:attribute name="type">
<xsl:value-of select="$pNewType"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
When applied on this XML document:
<t>
<property>value1</property>
<property type="old">value2</property>
</t>
the wanted result is produced:
<t>
<property>value1</property>
<property type="myNewType">value2</property>
</t>
Tested on a simple example, works fine:
<xsl:template match="#*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="#type[parent::property]">
<xsl:attribute name="type">
<xsl:value-of select="'your value here'"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>
Edited to include Tomalak's suggestion.
The top two answers will not work if there is a xmlns definition in the root element:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<property type="old"/>
</html>
All of the solutions will not work for the above xml.
The possible solution is like:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="node()[local-name()='property']/#*[local-name()='type']">
<xsl:attribute name="{name()}" namespace="{namespace-uri()}">
some new value here
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="#*|node()|comment()|processing-instruction()|text()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()|comment()|processing-instruction()|text()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
You need a template that will match your target attribute, and nothing else.
<xsl:template match='XPath/#myAttr'>
<xsl:attribute name='myAttr'>This is the value</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>
This is in addition to the "copy all" you already have (and is actually always present by default in XSLT). Having a more specific match it will be used in preference.
I had a similar case where I wanted to delete one attribute from a simple node, and couldn't figure out what axis would let me read the attribute name. In the end, all I had to do was use
#*[name(.)!='AttributeNameToDelete']
I also came across same issue and i solved it as follows:
<!-- identity transform -->
<xsl:template match="#*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<!-- copy property element while only changing its type attribute -->
<xsl:template match="property">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:attribute name="type">
<xsl:value-of select="'your value here'"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*[not(local-name()='type')]|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
For the following XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root>
<property type="foo"/>
<node id="1"/>
<property type="bar">
<sub-property/>
</property>
</root>
I was able to get it to work with the following XSLT:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="#*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="//property">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:attribute name="type">
<xsl:value-of select="#type"/>
<xsl:text>-added</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:copy-of select="child::*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
If your source XML document has its own namespace, you need to declare the namespace in your stylesheet, assign it a prefix, and use that prefix when referring to the elements of the source XML - for example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />
<!-- identity transform -->
<xsl:template match="node()|#*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<!-- exception-->
<xsl:template match="xhtml:property/#type">
<xsl:attribute name="type">
<xsl:text>some new value</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Or, if you prefer:
...
<!-- exception-->
<xsl:template match="#type[parent::xhtml:property]">
<xsl:attribute name="type">
<xsl:text>some new value</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>
...
ADDENDUM:
In the highly unlikely case where the XML namespace is not known beforehand, you could do:
<?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" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />
<!-- identity transform -->
<xsl:template match="node()|#*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<!-- exception -->
<xsl:template match="*[local-name()='property']/#type">
<xsl:attribute name="type">
<xsl:text>some new value</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>
Of course, it's very difficult to imagine a scenario where you would know in advance that the source XML document contains an element named "property", with an attribute named "type" that needs replacing - but still not know the namespace of the document. I have added this mainly to show how your own solution could be streamlined.