Transform XML to XML using XSLT

[adi]

hello all,
seems like a simple issue, but having tried several approaches with
no success I am posting this question,

I have a XML in one format, I want to now convert into another XML
format using XSLT.

FirstType.XML: (In this XML the States sub elements appear within USA
element)
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ROOT>
<Country>
<USA>
<State>
<City1>6000</City1>
<City2>100</City2>
<City3> </City3>
</State>
<State>
<City1>1000</City1>
<City2>10</City2>
<City3>2</City3>
</State>
</USA>
</Country>
</ROOT>
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DestinationXML: (I want the above XML to appear this way, note the
element <Type> is something I want to add - and is not in the originial
XML)
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Region>
<Area>
<Type> Original </Type>
<City1>6000</City1>
<City2>100</City2>
</Area>
<Area>
<Type> Original </Type>
<City1>1000</City1>
<City2>10</City2>
</Area>
</Region>
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My XSLT (Obviously broken :)
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:styleshe et version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http ://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="/">
<Region>
<Area>
<xsl:apply-templates select="/"> <xsl:sort
select="ROOT/Country/USA/State/City1"/>
<xsl:sort select="ROOT/Country/USA/State/City2"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</Area>
</Region>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="USA">
<xsl:for-each select="ROOT/Country/USA/State">
<xsl:attribut e name="Type"> <xsl:text>1</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribut e name="City1"> <xsl:value-of select="City1"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribut e name="City2"> <xsl:value-of select="City2"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
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I am using .NET classes to do the transformation. Please advice on what
I can do it fix this.

thanks for all help.
adi

[Joe Kesselman]

Try stating it in English...

You want to create a new Region document whose Areas correspond to the
States in the original document, and which contain only the City1 and
City2 tags.

As with any programming language, there are many possible ways to
organize the details of that task; which is best depends in part on what
you expect you're going to want to do with the data in the future. One
possibility might be:

<xsl:styleshe et version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http ://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="/">
<Region>
<xsl:apply-templates select="//State"/>
</Region>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="State">
<Area>
<Type> Original </Type>
<xsl:copy-of select="City1"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="City2"/>
</Area>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
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