I am transforming all <p>
tags and renaming these nodes to <Body_Text>
, on the condition that they are within the <body>
element (using xsl:if
).
My code is doing this, however it is omitting all <p>
elements that are outside of the <body>
element, which I don't want it to do.
<root>
<p>asdf</p>
<body>
<p>asdfasdf</p>
<p>asdfasdf</p>
</body>
<footer>
<p>asdf</p>
</footer>
</root>
...here is the XSL:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes" method="xml"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<!-- identity rule -->
<xsl:template match="node()|@*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<!-- Body_Text -->
<xsl:template match="p">
<xsl:if test="parent::body">
<Body_Text>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</Body_Text>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
...and here is the undesired result (omitting all <p>
elements that are outside of the <body>
element, which I don't want it to do):
<root>
<body>
<Body_Text>asdfasdf</Body_Text>
<Body_Text>asdfasdf</Body_Text>
</body>
<footer/>
</root>
This was tested at http://xslt.online-toolz.com/tools/xslt-transformation.php.
<root>
<p>asdf</p>
<body>
<Body_Text>asdfasdf</Body_Text>
<Body_Text>asdfasdf</Body_Text>
</body>
<footer>
<p>asdf</p>
</footer>
</root>
No xsl:if
is needed -- just specify proper template patterns.
This transformation:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="node()|@*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="body//p">
<Body_Text><xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/></Body_Text>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
when applied on the provided XML document:
<root>
<p>asdf</p>
<body>
<p>asdfasdf</p>
<p>asdfasdf</p>
</body>
<footer>
<p>asdf</p>
</footer>
</root>
produces the wanted, correct result:
<root>
<p>asdf</p>
<body>
<Body_Text>asdfasdf</Body_Text>
<Body_Text>asdfasdf</Body_Text>
</body>
<footer>
<p>asdf</p>
</footer>
</root>
Explanation:
The template pattern of:
<xsl:template match="body//p">
causes this template to be selected for execution only on p
elements that are descendents of a body
element. All the rest nodes are copied "as-is" by the identity rule.