Re: Translating element names

This is a task for the Talented Identity Transform,
the stylesheet that transform a document to itself.

By augmenting the identity transformation:

<!-- The Identity Transformation -->
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <!-- Whenever you match any node or any attribute -->
  <xsl:template match="node()|@*">
    <!-- Copy the current node -->
    <xsl:copy>
      <!-- Including any attributes it has and any child nodes -->
      <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


with an <xsl:template> that effects elements in
the way that you want, all will be well.

You'll end up with something like this:

<!-- Transform a document to itself, lowercasing all tag names -->
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <!-- Import the identity transformation -->
  <xsl:import href="identity.xsl"/>
  <!-- When you match any element -->
  <xsl:template match="*">
    <!-- Create the same element with a lowercase name -->
    <xsl:element name="{translate(name(),'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ',
                                         'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')}">
      <!-- Including any attributes it has and any child nodes -->
      <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thropp Lori" <lmt727@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 9:16 AM
Subject:  Translating element names


| I am having trouble writing an XSLT to do a simple
| transformation task.  I have lots of XML documents
| that have there element tags as CAPITAL letters.  I
| need to write a XSLT to transform these XML documents
| to contain all lowercase elements.  It should be
| relatively easy but I am having problems. I am still
| new to writing XSLT and I am having trouble.  Could
| someone lend a hand or point me in the right
| direction.
| 
| Thank you.
| 
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