changing an emelent into an attribute

[Raife]

i have a file like this (which im manipulating using
vb.net)

<CUSTOMERS>
<PRIMARY>Y</PRIMARY>
<SURNAME>BROWN</SURNAME>

which i want to make like this

<CUSTOMERS PRIMARY="Y">
<SURNAME>BROWN</SURNAME>

i dont know whether to this is easy to do using xsl or
whether this is a better way using DOM and Xpath or
something. Any help is greatly appreciated. thanks.

[Christoph Schittko [MVP]]

XSL and DOM both work. Go with whatever you ( or your team ) feels more
comfortable maintaining going forward.

It;s hard to give a good recommendation on a tiny example. There are many
more factors to consider ..

--
HTH
Christoph Schittko [MVP, XmlInsider]
Software Architect, .NET Mentor

"Raife" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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i have a file like this (which im manipulating using
vb.net)

<CUSTOMERS>
<PRIMARY>Y</PRIMARY>
<SURNAME>BROWN</SURNAME>

which i want to make like this

<CUSTOMERS PRIMARY="Y">
<SURNAME>BROWN</SURNAME>

i dont know whether to this is easy to do using xsl or
whether this is a better way using DOM and Xpath or
something. Any help is greatly appreciated. thanks.

thanks but im having trouble doing it either way!

-----Original Message-----
XSL and DOM both work. Go with whatever you ( or your team ) feels morecomfortable maintaining going forward.

It;s hard to give a good recommendation on a tiny example. There are manymore factors to consider ..

--
HTH
Christoph Schittko [MVP, XmlInsider]
Software Architect, .NET Mentor

"Raife" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in messagenews:04****************************@phx.gbl...

i have a file like this (which im manipulating using
vb.net)

<CUSTOMERS>
<PRIMARY>Y</PRIMARY>
<SURNAME>BROWN</SURNAME>

which i want to make like this

<CUSTOMERS PRIMARY="Y">
<SURNAME>BROWN</SURNAME>

i dont know whether to this is easy to do using xsl or
whether this is a better way using DOM and Xpath or
something. Any help is greatly appreciated. thanks.

.

[Christoph Schittko [MVP]]

can you be more specific? What are you trying to do? Is it something that's
specific to one document format do you need a more generic solution? How big
are the documents that you are processing?

--
HTH
Christoph Schittko [MVP]
Software Architect, .NET Mentor

<an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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thanks but im having trouble doing it either way!

-----Original Message-----
XSL and DOM both work. Go with whatever you ( or your

team ) feels more

comfortable maintaining going forward.

It;s hard to give a good recommendation on a tiny

example. There are many

more factors to consider ..

--
HTH
Christoph Schittko [MVP, XmlInsider]
Software Architect, .NET Mentor

"Raife" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in

message

news:04****************************@phx.gbl...

i have a file like this (which im manipulating using
vb.net)

<CUSTOMERS>
<PRIMARY>Y</PRIMARY>
<SURNAME>BROWN</SURNAME>

which i want to make like this

<CUSTOMERS PRIMARY="Y">
<SURNAME>BROWN</SURNAME>

i dont know whether to this is easy to do using xsl or
whether this is a better way using DOM and Xpath or
something. Any help is greatly appreciated. thanks.

.