I have been trying to convert specific child elements into attributes of
the
parent node. I looked through archive, there was a topic of converting
all
children to attributes of the root. I followed the same thing and tried
to
convert a specific child element, but i am getting following error.
elmToAtt.xsl; Line 18; Column -1; name() has an illegal attribute: {1}
I would like to copy the xml document and convert only specific elements
into attributes.
I am not able to make out why this error is, but to no avail. Hoping that
anybody in the list would help to resolve .
The specific error can be corrected by using AVT like this:
name="{name()}"
Here's a transformation, which converts any element, whose name is in a list
of names, to an identically named attribute of its parent:
<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:elNames>
<name>id</name>
</my:elNames>
<xsl:variable name="elNames"
select="document('')/*/my:elNames/name"/>
<xsl:template match="@* | node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="not(name() = $elNames)">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="*[name() = $elNames]"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:attribute name="{name()}">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="value">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
When this transformation is applied on your original source.xml:
<customerList>
<customer>
<field>
<id>customerId</id>
<value>cust1</value>
</field>
<field>
<id>customerName</id>
<value>Customer 1</value>
</field>
<fieldGroup>
<id>homeAddress</id>
<fieldList>
<field>
<id>street</id>
<value>98th Street </value>
</field>
<field>
<id>city</id>
<value>Chicago</value>
</field>
</fieldList>
</fieldGroup>
<fieldGroup>
<id>companyAddress</id>
<fieldList>
<field>
<id>street</id>
<value>128th Street</value>
</field>
<field>
<id>city</id>
<value>Chicago</value>
</field>
</fieldList>
</fieldGroup>
</customer>
</customerList>
the wanted result is produced:
<customerList>
<customer>
<field id="customerId">cust1</field>
<field id="customerName">Customer 1</field>
<fieldGroup id="homeAddress">
<fieldList>
<field id="street">98th Street </field>
<field id="city">Chicago</field>
</fieldList>
</fieldGroup>
<fieldGroup id="companyAddress">
<fieldList>
<field id="street">128th Street</field>
<field id="city">Chicago</field>
</fieldList>
</fieldGroup>
</customer>
</customerList>
Hope this helped.
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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.
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