Need help in choosing between xsl:for-each and xsl

Question

I am trying to transform an xml from one format to another and i need some help as i am new to xslt. My input/source xml is like this:

<field id="1" media="video" name="ContentLayout" value="Refer to Content Layout View">
        <specifiedLayout />
        <actualLayout>
          <segment endsmptetimecode="00:00:01:03" endtimecode="00:00:01:126" startsmptetimecode="00:00:00:00" starttimecode="00:00:00:000" type="Black" />        
          <segment endsmptetimecode="00:03:23:03" endtimecode="00:03:23:120" startsmptetimecode="00:00:01:03" starttimecode="00:00:01:126" type="Content" />
        Goes on...
        </actualLayout>
</field>

And the desired output xml should be like this:

<field id="1" media="video" name="ContentLayout" value="Refer to Content Layout View">
        <specifiedLayout/>
        <actualLayout>
          <segment end="00:00:02:002" endSMPTE="00:00:02:00" start="00:00:00:000" startSMPTE="00:00:00:00" type="Black"/>
          <segment end="00:00:47:081" endSMPTE="00:00:47:02" start="00:00:02:002" startSMPTE="00:00:02:00" type="Content"/>
        </actualLayout>
</field>

And the mapping of the attributes is like this:

start = starttimecode
end = endtimecode
startSMPTE = startsmptetimecode
endSMPTE = endsmptetimecode
type = type

I am able to identify the xml node like this:

<xsl:when test="@name='ContentLayout'">

I am thinking of using a xsl:for-each, and inside the loop declare 5 variables to store the attribute values, and then reassign it.

I some how feel its not right approach to do it. I dont know how can i use xsl:template in this type of scenario. Can anyone help me / advice ?

Answer 1

You can use local-name() to get the value of element/attribute. ex :

you try below code

 <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template     match="@starttimecode|@endtimecode|@startsmptetimecode|@endsmptetimecode|@type">
<xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="local-name() = 'starttimecode'">
  <xsl:attribute name="start">
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </xsl:attribute>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="local-name() = 'endtimecode'">
  <xsl:attribute name="end">
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </xsl:attribute>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="local-name() = 'startsmptetimecode'">
  <xsl:attribute name="startSMPTE">
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </xsl:attribute>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="local-name() = 'endsmptetimecode'">
  <xsl:attribute name="endSMPTE">
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </xsl:attribute>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="local-name() = 'type'">
  <xsl:attribute name="type">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </xsl:attribute>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>

</xsl:template>

Answer 2

In a case like this, where you need to keep most of the existing structure and only make a few changes, it is convenient to start with the identity transform template as the rule, and add a few templates as exceptions to the rule:

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:strip-space elements="*"/>

<!-- identity transform -->
<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
    <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
    </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="@starttimecode">
    <xsl:attribute name="start">
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="@endtimecode">
    <xsl:attribute name="end">
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="@startsmptetimecode">
    <xsl:attribute name="startSMPTE">
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="@endsmptetimecode">
    <xsl:attribute name="endSMPTE">
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>