How to: Transform a XML structure to a string element value

Question posted by: Riaan (Guest) on June 27th, 2008 07:07 PM

As the subject suggests, I am trying to populate a element (of type
xs:string) with a entire XML structure from the source. The problem
is, I get the transformation to work... but the tranformation creates
the target element as a complex type, and not a xs:String type that I
require.

Example:
Source:
<test>
<msg>Hi</msg>
</test>

Required Destination:
<destination>
<value>
<test>
<msg>Hi</msg>
</test>
</value>
</destination>

I can only manage to produce this (which is incorrect):
<destination>
<value>
<test>
<msg>Hi</msg>
</test>
</value>
</destination>

What XSLT can I use to give me my required result??

Riaan Gouws
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Martin Honnen

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June 27th, 2008
07:07 PM
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Re: How to: Transform a XML structure to a string element value

Riaan wrote:

Quote:

What XSLT can I use to give me my required result??

Either use an extension function like saxon:serialize
http://www.saxonica.com/documentati.../serialize.html
or write templates that serialize your nodes yourself e.g. alike
<xsl:template match="*" mode="serialize">
<xsl:text><</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
<xsl:text>></xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates mode="serialize"/>
<xsl:text></</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
<xsl:text>></xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
The above is not a complete solution as it ignores attributes for instance.

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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

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