Unable to add Parent node name(if any) to a child node XSLT 1.0

[SWETA123]

I will very helpful to you if you can help me out in my below problem. I am not getting idea what should be the right approach for this.
Here is my problem.

I have below (sample)xml.

<Rules>
<MapRule input="@PARENT()" output="Sales_Totals" />
<MapRule input="''" output="Sales_Totals@name" />
<MapRule input="''" output="Sales_Totals@type" />
<MapRule input="" output="Sales_Totals@allTimeSales" />
<MapRule input="@PARENT()" output="ProductList" />
<MapRule input="" output="ProductList@year" />
<MapRule input="" output="ProductList@value" />
<MapRule input="@PARENT()" output="Product" />  ( Product node is getting created here)
<MapRule input="" output="Product@quarter" />    ("quarter" is an attribue of Product node)
<MapRule input="" output="Name" />            (PRoduct node has three leaf nodes - Name , Value, Sold)    
<MapRule input="" output="Value" />
<MapRule input="" output="Sold" />
<MapRule input="@ENDPARENT()" output="Product" /> (Product node is getting closed here)
<MapRule input="" output="Services" />
<MapRule input="" output="Services@lawnservice" />
<MapRule input="@ENDPARENT()" output="ProductList"/>
<MapRule input="@ENDPARENT()" output="Sales_Totals"/>
</Rules>

In this xml , if the attribute "output" of the node "MapRule" contains "@" symbol then it is not a node name but an attribute of a node, otherwise node name.

Ex:
a) <MapRule input="@PARENT()" output="Sales_Totals" />
Here Sales_total is a node name (i.e, it is not a leaf node).

b) <MapRule input="''" output="Sales_Totals@name" />
Here "name" is an attribute of "Sales_Totals" node.

c)<MapRule input="" output="Name" />
Here attribute "input" is empty and attribute "output" does not have @ symbol , it means it is a leaf node.


I want to display the nodes and the attributes(should be followed by @ symbol) in the below way.

Sales_total 
Sales_Total@name
Sales_Total@type
Sales_total@allTimeSales
Sales_TotalProductList (<- From here my problem area. )
Sales_TotalProductList@year
Sales_TotalProductList@value
Sales_TotalProductListProduct
Sales_TotalProductListProduct@Quarter
Sales_TotalProductListProductName
Sales_TotalProductListProductValue
Sales_TotalProductListProductSold
Sales_TotalProductListServices
Sales_TotalProductListServices@lawnservice

I first thought of creating a variable and assigning the parent node to it. For ex var xyz = "Sales_node". But this is not right because i cannot modify xyz with Sales_node/ProductList. And this is changing again and again. Appreciate if any one can help me in this.

Thanks

[Dormilich]

to me it looks as if your XML is overcomplicating matters. after reading several times it looks as if it is a kind of XML definition.

point 1: to describe an XML file’s structure you should use XML Schema or a DTD (there are some more, but these are the most common)

point 2: if you don’t want to (or can’t) use those definition languages, at least structure your definition XML. this will make it easier to recognise parent-child-relations. this will also help applying XSLT/XPath.

ex.

<element name="Sales_Totals">
  <attribute name="name"/>
  <element name="ProductList">
    <element name="Product"/>
  </element>
</element>

Note: a node in XML can be anything, a coarse grouping would be element node (that’s what I think you call “leaf node”), attribute node, text node & namespace node (there are around a dozen more node types)

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