how to retrieve node and child values that has xsi:type value

[drajani]

I have the below input XML sent by APP1.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<abc1:QWAARequest 
  xmlns:abc1="http://www.mysite.com/myLink/v1/Test.xsd" 
  xmlns:abc2="http://www.mysite.com/v1" 
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.mysite.com/myLink/v1/Test.xsd Test.xsd">
    <abc1:HostID>TEST</abc1:HostID>
    <abc1:WorkForceEvent>
        <abc2:ProjectElementHasCalendarEntry>
            <abc2:relationshipType>ConfirmedSlot</abc2:relationshipType>
            <abc2:CalendarEntry xsi:type="abc2:AppointmentEvent">
                <abc2:rescheduleReason>Standard Prefix</abc2:rescheduleReason>
            </abc2:CalendarEntry>
        </abc2:ProjectElementHasCalendarEntry>
    </abc1:WorkForceEvent>
</abc1:QWAARequest>

Another application APP2 sends a different XML file with different prefixes (say xyz1, xyz2 in place of abc1, abc2 in above xml) but with same namespace.

I am trying to build a generic xsl which can work with both xml files. Below is the same:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
                xmlns:prefix1="http://www.mysite.com/myLink/v1/Test.xsd"  
                xmlns:prefix2="http://www.mysite.com/v1" 
                xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
 
  <xsl:template match="*">
    <xsl:element name="{name()}">
      <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="node() | text()"/>
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>
 
  <xsl:template match="text()">
    <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
  </xsl:template>
 
  <xsl:template match="prefix1:*">
    <xsl:element name="prefix1:{local-name()}">
      <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="node() | text()"/>
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>
 
  <xsl:template match="prefix2:*">
    <xsl:element name="prefix2:{local-name()}">
      <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="node() | text()"/>
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>
 
  <xsl:template match="prefix1:QWAARequest">
        <Output>
      <xsl:value-of select="prefix1:HostID"/> |
      <xsl:value-of select="prefix1:WorkForceEvent/prefix2:ProjectElementHasCalendarEntry/prefix2:relationshipType" /> |
      <xsl:value-of select="prefix1:WorkForceEvent/prefix2:ProjectElementHasCalendarEntry[prefix2:relationshipType='ConfirmedSlot']/prefix2:CalendarEntry[@xsi:type='prefix2:AppointmentEvent']/prefix2:rescheduleReason" />
    </Output>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

The above xsl works fine except where it tries to get the value for "rescheduleReason". I guess it is trying to look for exact value of 'prefix2:AppointmentEvent' but by xml has 'abc2:AppointmentEvent'.

Please suggest how to modify the xsl to interpret the value correctly.

I am using .Net 2.0 programming model to load the xml and xsl to generate the output.

Cheers
Rajani

[Dormilich]

@drajani
attribute values do not have a namespace (though the attribute nodes have). therefore xsi:type='prefix2:AppointmentEvent' does not exist in your original XML, no matter what the prefix2 namespace is. use [@xsi:type='abc2:AppointmentEvent'] as condition

[drajani]

Thanks. That way I can never write a generic xsl. Is there any possibility to add a match condition in a template tag which can do a find & replace or something similar (as a workaround)?

[Dormilich]

how do you mean that?