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Should I use XSLT or DOM
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- Subject: Should I use XSLT or DOM
- From: Junk Junk <xline1 at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 13:17:58 -0700 (PDT)
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I'm new to XSLT, although I have a fair
understanding of XML, SAX and DOM
processing. For a new project, I need
to transform one XML document to another.
However, the transformation is not direct.
I need to be able to manipulate the source
tree. The destination tree will be
different from the source tree with element
and attribute values from the source tree
becoming element/attribute values of a
totally different tree structure.
Example:
Source document:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<element1 a1="value_1" a2="value_2">
<element2 a3="value_3"
a4="value_4">SomeText</element2>
<element3>MoreText</element3>
<element4 a5="value_5"/>
</element1>
Destination document
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<element0>
<element1 a1="value_5">
<element2 a2="MoreText"/>
<element3 a2="value_3">SomeText</element3>
</element1>
<element4>
<element5>value_4</element5>
</element4>
</element0>
I know the above doesn't make practical
sense, but it is something like what I need
to do.
I was wondering if any experienced XML/XSLT
folks might be willing to tell me if XSLT
would be an appropriate tool to use for the
purpose or if I should use DOM parsing
via Java instead?
Thanks much.
Alan V.
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