Rename XML elements using XSLT

Question

I need to change some of the element names in the original XML. I am trying to do this with XSLT, but can\'t get it to work.

Here is a sample of XML:

&l         


        

Answer 1

The following template achieves the result you're looking for:

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

    <xsl:output method="html" />

    <!-- Copy all elements and attributes from the source to the target -->
    <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" />
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

    <!-- Transform the given elements to divs with class names matching the source element names -->
    <xsl:template match="itemtitle|poll|pcredit">
        <div class="{local-name(.)}">
          <xsl:value-of select="."/>
        </div>
    </xsl:template>

    <!-- Transform the section element to a div of class 'issuehead' -->
    <xsl:template match="section">
        <div class="issuehead">
            <xsl:value-of select="."/>
        </div>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet> 

If you'd like more well formed markup modify the xsl:output tag as follows:

<xsl:output method="xml" 
    version="1.0" 
    encoding="UTF-8" 
    indent="yes" 
    omit-xml-declaration="yes" 
    doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
    doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
/>

Answer 2

For anything like this, start with an identity transform:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="node( ) | @*">
    <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node( )"/>
    </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>  

This will just copy every node. But then you add additional templates to do what you need:

<xsl:template match="section"> 
  <div class="issuehead">
      <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node( )"/>
  </div>
</xsl:template>

This pattern should get you what you want.