Re: Elements to attributes

Like Michael Kay always says, think trees, not files. You want
to output a tree, not a bunch of tags.

> I want to transform a list of attributes (NMTOKENS) into
element. I.e. from:
>  <foo N="PU US UK"/>
> to:
> <foo><St>PU</St><St>US</St><St>UK</St></foo>
>
> The following:
>
> [snip]
>
>
> Converts it to:
>
<foo>&lt;St&gt;UK&lt;/St&gt;&lt;St&gt;US&lt;/St&gt;&lt;St&gt;PU&
lt;/St&gt;</
> foo>
>
>
> Please,
>
> 1. How can I replace &lt; and  &lt; with < and > in the ouput.

In order to fix your style sheet you must generate elements
instead of strings.

<xsl:template match="foo">
<foo>
<!--
      <xsl:variable name="st">
-->
        <xsl:variable name="wlista" select="@N"/>
          <xsl:call-template name="lists">
            <xsl:with-param name="wlist" select="$wlista"/>
            <xsl:with-param name="tag" select="'St'"/>
          </xsl:call-template>
<!--
        </xsl:variable>
        <xsl:value-of select="$st"/>
-->
</foo >
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="lists">
  <xsl:param name="wlist"/>
  <xsl:param name="tag"/>
  <xsl:variable name="wlistb"
select="concat(normalize-space($wlist),' ')"/>
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="$wlistb!=' '">
      <xsl:variable name="first"
select="substring-before($wlistb,' ')"/>
      <xsl:variable name="rest"
select="substring-after($wlistb,' ')"/>

      <!-- this generates the nodes in the output tree -->
      <!-- if the element name is not always St, use
<xsl:element> -->
      <St><xsl:value-of select="$first"/></St>

      <xsl:call-template name="lists">
         <xsl:with-param name="wlist" select="$rest"/>
         <xsl:with-param name="tag" select="$tag"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
<!--
      <xsl:value-of
select="concat('&lt;',$tag,'&gt;',$first,'&lt;/',$tag,'&gt;')"/>
-->
    </xsl:when>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>



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