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RE: flatten XML tree
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:09:51 -0000
- Subject: RE: [xsl] flatten XML tree
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
<xsl:for-each select="//article">
<xsl:copy-of select="*"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="ancestor::issue/number"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="ancestor::issue/topic">
</xsl:for-each>
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Robert
> Sösemann
> Sent: 18 March 2002 16:20
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: [xsl] flatten XML tree
>
>
> Hello,
>
> how can I flatten my XML like that?
>
> This is the source:
>
> <archive>
> <issue>
> <number>2</number>
> <topic>Genetic Diseases</topic>
> <articles>
> <article>
> <title>The magic of DNA</title>
> <author>Ronald Mueller</author>
> <keywords>genetics,dna</keywords>
> </article>
> <article>
> <title> DNA demystified</title>
> <author>Arnold Breed</author>
> <keywords>genetics,dna</keywords>
> </article>
> *many articles*
> </articles>
> </issue>
> *many magazines*
> </archive>
>
> and I want:
>
> <archive>
> <article>
> <number>2</number>
> <topic>Genetic Diseases</topic>
> <title>The magic of DNA</title>
> <author>Ronald Mueller</author>
> <keywords>genetics,dna</keywords>
> </article>
> <article>
> <number>2</number>
> <topic>Genetic Diseases</topic>
> <title> DNA demystified</title>
> <author>Arnold Breed</author>
> <keywords>genetics,dna</keywords>
> </article>
> *many articles*
> </archive>
>
> All that I want to define is that I only want the root and an
> amount of
> article nodes.
> The children of article can stay as they are.
> All ancestors like number and topic that semantically belong
> also to an
> article schould became direct childs of article.
>
> Would that be possible? And could this even be undone?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Rob
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