Retrieve verbatim XML content

[Thomas Fazekas]

Hi there,

I'm not sure whether this is strictly an XSLT related question, it mught be an XPath or XQuerry one. The fact of the matter is that I couldn't find/come up with a workable answer using any of these technologies.

Here goes : I want to retrieve verbatim the xml content of some selected XML tags.

For example, if I have the following XML code :

<a><b><c prop1="val1" prop2="val2"><e/><c><d prop1="val_a" prop2="val_b"><f/></d></b></a>

I need something that using an xpath expression like /a/b/* would give me :

<c prop1="val1" prop2="val2">

<d prop1="val_a" prop2="val_b">

In other words I'm interested in the verbatim copy of the XML code of all the tags of the current level but not underneath.

Can this be achieved with XSLT/XPath/XQuery ?

[George Cristian Bina]

Dear Thomas,

Yes, a stylesheet like below will do exactly that:

<xsl:stylesheet version="3.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="content">
<xsl:apply-templates select="/a/b/*" mode="shallowCopy"/>
</xsl:variable>
<result>
<xsl:copy-of select="$content"/>
</result>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*" mode="shallowCopy">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*" mode="shallowCopy"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@*" mode="shallowCopy">
<xsl:copy/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Best Regards,
George
--
George Cristian Bina
<oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

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[George Cristian Bina]

... and you can simplify that down to

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

<xsl:template match="/">
<result>

<xsl:apply-templates select="/a/b/*" mode="shallowCopy"/>

</result>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*|@*" mode="shallowCopy">

<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*" mode="shallowCopy"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


Best Regards,
George
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George Cristian Bina
<oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

[Thomas Fazekas]

Works like a charm ! Thanks !

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