I have an xml in the following format:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
<cases>
<case>CASE-ONE</case>
<case>CASE-TWO</case>
</cases>
<results>
<Final-Results>
<issues>
<row>
<IKEY>2014-03-26-05.22.22.193840T01</IKEY>
<PRTY>999</PRTY>
</row>
</issues>
</Final-Results>
<Final-Results>
<issues>
<row>
<IKEY>2014-03-26-05.05.51.077840T01</IKEY>
<PRTY>999</PRTY>
</row>
<row>
<IKEY>2014-03-26-05.10.51.077840T01</IKEY>
<PRTY>999</PRTY>
</row>
</issues>
</Final-Results>
</results>
</response>
Now, I want to convert the above xml to the following format using XSLT:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
<cases>
<case>
CASE-ONE
<issues>
<row>
<IKEY>2014-03-26-05.22.22.193840T01</IKEY>
<PRTY>999</PRTY>
</row>
</issues>
</case>
<case>
CASE-TWO
<issues>
<row>
<IKEY>2014-03-26-05.05.51.077840T01</IKEY>
<PRTY>999</PRTY>
</row>
<row>
<IKEY>2014-03-26-05.10.51.077840T01</IKEY>
<PRTY>999</PRTY>
</row>
</issues>
</case>
</cases>
</response>
The idea is to move the content between the first <issues> </issues>
tags to the first <case> </case>
tags and the second <issues> </issues>
tags to the second tags and so on. Here the number of <case>
tags and <issues>
tags are uncertain. So,I think I have to use for loop kind of thing here.Honestly, I am not expert in using XSLT. It would be great if you can provide a solution. Please feel free to add a comment if my question is not clear so that I can put it in better words.
Thanks in advance.
No need to use a for loop. Use the identity transform and xsl:apply-templates
instead.
XML Input
<response>
<cases>
<case>CASE-ONE</case>
<case>CASE-TWO</case>
</cases>
<results>
<Final-Results>
<issues>
<row>
<IKEY>2014-03-26-05.22.22.193840T01</IKEY>
<PRTY>999</PRTY>
</row>
</issues>
</Final-Results>
<Final-Results>
<issues>
<row>
<IKEY>2014-03-26-05.05.51.077840T01</IKEY>
<PRTY>999</PRTY>
</row>
<row>
<IKEY>2014-03-26-05.10.51.077840T01</IKEY>
<PRTY>999</PRTY>
</row>
</issues>
</Final-Results>
</results>
</response>
XSLT 1.0
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 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="/*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|cases"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="case">
<xsl:variable name="pos" select="position()"/>
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="/*/results/Final-Results[position()=$pos]/issues"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
XML Output
<response>
<cases>
<case>CASE-ONE<issues>
<row>
<IKEY>2014-03-26-05.22.22.193840T01</IKEY>
<PRTY>999</PRTY>
</row>
</issues>
</case>
<case>CASE-TWO<issues>
<row>
<IKEY>2014-03-26-05.05.51.077840T01</IKEY>
<PRTY>999</PRTY>
</row>
<row>
<IKEY>2014-03-26-05.10.51.077840T01</IKEY>
<PRTY>999</PRTY>
</row>
</issues>
</case>
</cases>
</response>
I could think of this way:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<response>
<cases>
<xsl:apply-templates select="response/cases/case"/>
</cases>
</response>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="cases/case">
<xsl:variable name="pos" select="position()"/>
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
<xsl:copy-of select="//response/results/Final-Results[position() = $pos]/issues"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
The following stylesheet produces the desired result:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 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="case">
<case>
<xsl:value-of select="concat('
', ., '
')" />
<xsl:copy-of
select="../../results/Final-Results[
count(current()/preceding-sibling::case) + 1]/issues" />
</case>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="results" />
</xsl:stylesheet>