Duplicate Element x number of times with XSLT - xslt

Question

I have a strange transformation that I'm trying to do.
XML looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<Parent>
<RecordCount>4</RecordCount>
<Record name="1">
<Child1>Value 1</Child1>
<Child2>Value 2</Child2>
</Record>
</Parent>
And this is what it needs to look like:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<Parent>
<RecordCount>4</RecordCount>
<Record name="1">
<Child1>Value 1</Child1>
<Child2>Value 2</Child2>
</Record>
<Record name="2">
<Child1>Value 1</Child1>
<Child2>Value 2</Child2>
</Record>
<Record name="3">
<Child1>Value 1</Child1>
<Child2>Value 2</Child2>
</Record>
<Record name="4">
<Child1>Value 1</Child1>
<Child2>Value 2</Child2>
</Record>
</Parent>
Is something like this even possible with XSLT or should I rather just handle this in code?

Answer 1

Here's another way using XSLT 2.0...
XML Input
<Parent>
<RecordCount>4</RecordCount>
<Record name="1">
<Child1>Value 1</Child1>
<Child2>Value 2</Child2>
</Record>
</Parent>
XSLT 2.0
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="#*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="RecordCount">
<xsl:variable name="record" select="../Record"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
<xsl:for-each select="1 to .">
<xsl:apply-templates select="$record" mode="replicate">
<xsl:with-param name="cnt" select="."/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Record" mode="replicate">
<xsl:param name="cnt"/>
<Record name="{$cnt}">
<xsl:apply-templates select="#* except #name|node()"/>
</Record>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Record"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output
<Parent>
<RecordCount>4</RecordCount>
<Record name="1">
<Child1>Value 1</Child1>
<Child2>Value 2</Child2>
</Record>
<Record name="2">
<Child1>Value 1</Child1>
<Child2>Value 2</Child2>
</Record>
<Record name="3">
<Child1>Value 1</Child1>
<Child2>Value 2</Child2>
</Record>
<Record name="4">
<Child1>Value 1</Child1>
<Child2>Value 2</Child2>
</Record>
</Parent>

Answer 2

Try following xlst
<?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" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/Parent">
<Parent>
<xsl:variable name="count" select="RecordCount" />
<xsl:call-template name="multiply">
<xsl:with-param name="maxCount" select="$count" />
<xsl:with-param name="nodeToCopy" select="Record" />
</xsl:call-template>
</Parent>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="multiply">
<xsl:param name="maxCount" />
<xsl:param name="i" select="1" />
<xsl:param name="nodeToCopy" />
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$i <= $maxCount">
<xsl:element name="{name($nodeToCopy)}">
<xsl:attribute name="name">
<xsl:value-of select="$i" />
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:copy-of select="$nodeToCopy/child::*" />
</xsl:element>
<xsl:call-template name="multiply">
<xsl:with-param name="maxCount" select="$maxCount" />
<xsl:with-param name="nodeToCopy" select="$nodeToCopy" />
<xsl:with-param name="i" select="$i+1" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise />
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
It is based on recursive calling of named template with increasing of "iterating" value. If would be something unclear just write a comment.