XML Tutorial/XSLT stylesheet/xml output

Add new tags to xml

File: Data.xml
<name>
  <last>A</last>
  <first>W</first>
</name>
File: Transform.xslt
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />
  <xsl:output cdata-section-elements="notes" />
  <xsl:template match="name">
    <name>
      <family>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="last" />
      </family>
      <given>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="first" />
      </given>
      <notes>&amp; </notes>
    </name>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Add new tags to xml document

File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<name>
  <last>A</last>
  <first>B</first>
</name>
File: Transform.xslt
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8" />
  <xsl:output version="1.1" />
  <xsl:template match="name">
    <name>
      <family>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="last" />
      </family>
      <given>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="first" />
      </given>
    </name>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:
<?xml version="1.1" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<name>
   <family>A</family>
   <given>B</given>
</name>

Convert xml structure

File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<list xml:lang="en">
  <title>title 1</title>
  <listitem>item 1</listitem>
  <listitem>item 2</listitem>
  <listitem>item 3</listitem>
  <listitem xml:lang="sw">item 4</listitem>
  <listitem xml:lang="en-gb">item 5</listitem>
  <listitem xml:lang="zu">item 6</listitem>
  <listitem xml:lang="jz">item 7</listitem>
</list>

File: Transform.xslt
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <catalog>
      <xsl:for-each select="/list/listitem">
        <album>
          <xsl:apply-templates/>
        </album>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </catalog>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<catalog>
   <album>item 1</album>
   <album>item 2</album>
   <album>item 3</album>
   <album>item 4</album>
   <album>item 5</album>
   <album>item 6</album>
   <album>item 7</album>
</catalog>

Output element with default namespace

File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<message>You can use literal result elements in stylesheets.</message>
File: Transform.xslt
<stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <output method="xml" indent="yes" />
  <template match="/">
    <msg xmlns="http://www.wbex.ru/msg">
      <apply-templates
        xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" />
    </msg>
  </template>
</stylesheet>
Output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<msg xmlns="http://www.wbex.ru/msg">You can use literal result elements in stylesheets.</msg>

output xml element with namespace

File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<message>You can use literal result elements in stylesheets.</message>

File: Transform.xslt
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:doc="http://www.wbex.ru/documents">
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:element name="doc:paragraph">
      <xsl:apply-templates />
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<doc:paragraph xmlns:doc="http://www.wbex.ru/documents">You can use literal result elements in stylesheets.</doc:paragraph>

Output xml tags

File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="Transform.xslt"?>
<root>
  <first position="1">
    <level1 children="0">This is level 1 of the nested elements</level1>
  </first>
  <second position="2">
    <level1 children="1">
      <level2>This is level 2 of the nested elements</level2>
    </level1>
  </second>
</root>
File: Transform.xslt
<?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"/>
  <xsl:template match="@*">
    <xsl:element name="{name()}">
      <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="*">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="*|@*"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root><first><position>1</position><level1><children>0</children></level1></first><second><position>2</position><level1><children>1</children><level2/></level1></second></root>

Output xml with namespace

File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<europe>
 <states>
  <state>Finland</state>
  <state>Sweden</state>
  <state>Iceland</state>
  <state>Norway</state>
  <state>Denmark</state>
 </states>
</europe>
File: Transform.xslt
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:sc="http://www.wbex.ru/scand">
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="ISO-8859-1" />
  <xsl:template match="europe">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="states" />
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="states">
    <sc:states xmlns:scand="http://www.wbex.ru/states"
      xmlns:nr="http://www.wbex.ru/states"
      xsl:exclude-result-prefixes="scand nr">
      <xsl:apply-templates select="state">
        <xsl:sort />
      </xsl:apply-templates>
    </sc:states>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="state">
    <sc:country>
      <xsl:value-of select="." />
    </sc:country>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<sc:states xmlns:sc="http://www.wbex.ru/scand">
   <sc:country>Denmark</sc:country>
   <sc:country>Finland</sc:country>
   <sc:country>Iceland</sc:country>
   <sc:country>Norway</sc:country>
   <sc:country>Sweden</sc:country>
</sc:states>

Restructure xml

File: Data.xml

<name>
  <last>A</last>
  <first>B</first>
</name>
File: Transform.xslt
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />
  <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" />
  <xsl:template match="name">
    <name>
      <family>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="last" />
      </family>
      <given>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="first" />
      </given>
    </name>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<name>
   <family>A</family>
   <given>B</given>
</name>

Set cdata-section-elements

File: Data.xml
<name>
  <last>A</last>
  <first>W</first>
</name>
File: Transform.xslt
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />
  <xsl:output cdata-section-elements="notes" />
  <xsl:template match="name">
    <name>
      <family>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="last" />
      </family>
      <given>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="first" />
      </given>
      <notes>&amp; </notes>
    </name>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Using xsl:element and xsl:attribute

File: Data.xml
<?xml version = "1.0"?>
<sports>
   <game title = "cricket">
      <id>243</id>
      <para>
         para 1
      </para>
   </game>
   <game title = "baseball">
      <id>431</id>
      <para>
         para 2
      </para>
   </game>
   <game title = "soccer">
      <id>123</id>
      <para>
         para 3
      </para>
   </game>
</sports>
File: Transform.xslt
<?xml version = "1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates />
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="sports">
    <sports>
      <xsl:apply-templates />
    </sports>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="game">
    <xsl:element name="{@title}">
      <xsl:attribute name="id">
            <xsl:value-of select="id" />
         </xsl:attribute>
      <comment>
        <xsl:value-of select="para" />
      </comment>
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><sports>
   <cricket id="243"><comment>
         para 1
      </comment></cricket>
   <baseball id="431"><comment>
         para 2
      </comment></baseball>
   <soccer id="123"><comment>
         para 3
      </comment></soccer>
</sports>