Re: Creating child elements to existing Parent element

Thanks for your suggestion, I realized that I simplified my original
problem a bit too much. My original problem can't be solved by simply
matching some XPath query. Still this gives me some ideas to try in my
much complicate context.

Please try this stylesheet:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="/x">
 <Ingredients>
   <xsl:for-each select="Spices/Spice | MeatParentTags/Meats/Meat |
Vegetables/Vegetable">
     <Ingredient>
       <xsl:copy-of select="@*" />
     </Ingredient>
   </xsl:for-each>
 </Ingredients>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

This when applied to XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<x>
 <Spices>
   <Spice name="black pepper" id="11" />
   <Spice name="ginger powder" id="12" />
   <Spice name="salt" id="13" />
 </Spices>
 <MeatParentTags>
   <Meats>
     <Meat name="pork" id="21" />
   </Meats>
 </MeatParentTags>
 <Vegetables>
   <Vegetable name="Green Pepper" id="34" />
 </Vegetables>
</x>

Produces the desired output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Ingredients>
  <Ingredient name="black pepper" id="11"/>
  <Ingredient name="ginger powder" id="12"/>
  <Ingredient name="salt" id="13"/>
  <Ingredient name="pork" id="21"/>
  <Ingredient name="Green Pepper" id="34"/>
</Ingredients>

On 9/7/06, Cherry Yang <qian.cherry.yang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I was not able to find out how to create child elements to existing
> Parent elements after going through my XSLT document and searching on
> the web. I might not be searching with the right key words. Here is my
> problem:
>
> My Source xml document looks something like this:
> <Spices>
>      <Spice name="black pepper" id="11"/>
>      <Spice name="ginger powder" id="12"/>
>       <Spice name="salt" id="13"/>
> </Spices>
> ....
> <MeatsParentTags>
> ......
>     <Meats>
>          <Meat name="pork" id="21"/>
>     </Meats>
> </MeatParentTags>
> .....
> <Vegetables>
>         <Vegetable name="Green Pepper" id="34/>
>  </Vegetables>
>
> My desired output would be a combination of these tags.
> <Ingredients>
>        <Ingredient name="black pepper" id="11"/>
>        <Ingredient name="ginger powder" id="12"/>
>       <Ingredient name="salt" id="13"/>
>        <Ingredient  name="pork" id="21"/>
>         <Ingredient name="Green Pepper" id="34/>
> </Ingredients>
>
> My XSLT would create element <Ingredients> when processing <Spices>.
> Later on it should only create <ingredient> element as child element
> to <Ingredients> element when processing <Meat> or <Vegetable>. Any
> suggestion on how this can be achieved?
>
> I appreciate your help!
>
> QCY

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