I've searched through similar questions, but couldn't make any of the suggestions to work. I have the following XML that I need to modify:
<XDB>
<ROOT>
<KEY><ID>12345</ID><DATE>5/10/2011</DATE></KEY>
<PERSONAL><ID>1</ID><INFO><LASTNAME>Smith</LASTNAME>...</INFO></PERSONAL>
<CONTACT><ID>1</ID><EMAIL>asmith@yahoo.com</EMAIL>...</CONTACT>
</ROOT>
<ROOT>
<KEY><ID>98765</ID><DATE>5/10/2013</DATE></KEY>
<CONTACT><ID>2</ID><EMAIL>psmithton@yahoo.com</EMAIL>...</CONTACT>
</ROOT>
...
</XDB>
And it needs to look like this:
<XDB>
<ROOT>
<KEY><ID>12345</ID><DATE>5/10/2011</DATE>
<PERSONAL><ID>1</ID><INFO><LASTNAME>Smith</LASTNAME>...</INFO></PERSONAL>
<CONTACT><ID>1</ID><EMAIL>asmith@yahoo.com</EMAIL>...</CONTACT>
</KEY>
</ROOT>
<ROOT>
<KEY><ID>98765</ID><DATE>5/10/2013</DATE>
<CONTACT><ID>2</ID><EMAIL>psmithton@yahoo.com</EMAIL>...</CONTACT>
</KEY>
</ROOT>
...
</XDB>
I need to make 2...n siblings as children of the first 'key' sibling. Essentially, I need to remove the closing </KEY> and put it before the closing </ROOT>.
Following xslt based on Identity transform could make this job
<?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" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<!-- Copy everything you find... -->
<xsl:template match="node()|@*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<!-- ... but if you find first element inside ROOT ... -->
<xsl:template match="ROOT/node()[1]">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*" />
<!-- ... copy its sibling into it ... -->
<xsl:copy-of select="following-sibling::*" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<!-- ignore other elements inside ROOT element since they are copied in template matching first element -->
<xsl:template match="ROOT/node()[position() > 1]" />
</xsl:stylesheet>