Need to transform an xml using XSLT

Question

I am working on an XSLT where I transforming an XML into an nice looking html markup.

I have below input XML :

<entry in_force_from="20011201" colname="2" morerows="0"> <text in_force_from="20011201" newpara="N">A <autodeftext glossary-id="G430"> firm</autodeftext> must conduct its business with integrity. </text> </entry>

And I want to transform this into :

<div> A<a href="hell.aspx?id=G430"> firm</a> must conduct its business with integrity. </div>

Most of the transformation is quite straight forward except the creation of this a link node.

Can you show the XSLT you currently have? (Maybe at least the XSLT that currently transforms the text into ` div`) Thanks! — Tim C
– Tim C, Commented Jun 8, 2016 at 21:55
Tim, here is the one that I will use : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="xml"/> <xsl:template match="entry"> <div> <xsl:value-of select="text"/> </div> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> — sumanmodi
– sumanmodi, Commented Jun 8, 2016 at 22:17
Can you edit your question to show this XSLT, as code is always hard to read in comments? Thanks! — Tim C
– Tim C, Commented Jun 8, 2016 at 22:33

Tim C · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-08 22:33:08Z

Instead of using xsl:value-of to get the value of the text node, you should use xsl:apply-templates to allow you to add more templates to transform the descendant nodes

Try this XSLT

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="xml"/> <xsl:template match="entry"> <div> <xsl:apply-templates select="text"/> </div> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="text"> <xsl:apply-templates /> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="autodeftext"> <a href="hell.aspx?id={@glossary-id}"> <xsl:apply-templates /> </a> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

Strictly speaking, you could actually remove the template matching text here as XSLT's built-in template rules will do the same thing in this case anyway.

Note the use of Attribute Value Templates in creating the href attribute, to simplify the code.

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