Re: generating tags using xslt

Pierre-Yves wrote:
> hello,
> I have a xml files that looks like :
> 
> <record name="myRecord">
>     <item name="PageName">
>         <value>myPage</value>
>     </item>
>     <item name="Title_EN">
>         <value>english title</value>
>     </item>
>     <item name="Title_FR">
>         <value>french title</value>
>     </item>
>     <item name="Paragraph_EN">
>         <value>
>             <item name="SubParagraph_EN">
>                 <value>sub-paragraph 1 (english)</value>
>             </item>
>             <item name="SubParagraph_EN">
>                 <value>sub-paragraph 2 (english)</value>
>             </item>
>         </value>
>     </item>
>     <item name="Paragraph_FR">
>         <value>
>             <item name="SubParagraph_FR">
>                 <value>sub-paragraph 1 (french)</value>
>             </item>
>         </value>
>     </item>
> </record>
> 
> and I would like to transform it like this :
> 
> <record name="myRecord">
>     <item name="common">
>         <value>
>             <item name="PageName">
>                 <value>myPage</value>
>             </item>
>         </value>
>     </item>
>     <item name="english">
>         <value>
>             <item name="Title">
>                 <value>english title</value>
>             </item>
>             <item name="Paragraph">
>                 <value>
>                     <item name="SubParagraph">
>                         <value>sub-paragraph 1 (english)</value>
>                     </item>
>                     <item name="SubParagraph">
>                         <value>sub-paragraph 2 (english)</value>
>                     </item>
>                 </value>
>             </item>
>         </value>
>     </item>
>     <item name="french">
>         <value>
>             <item name="Title">
>                 <value>french title</value>
>             </item>
>             <item name="Paragraph">
>                 <value>
>                     <item name="SubParagraph">
>                         <value>sub-paragraph 1 (french)</value>
>                     </item>
>                 </value>
>             </item>
>         </value>
>     </item>
> </record>
> 
> The goal, is to put all items that ends with _EN into <item name="english">,
> all items that ends with _FR into <item name="french">, and all remaining
> items into <item name="common">.
> 
> Someone told me I can easily do this with XSLT.
> I started by mapping some fields "1 to 1" but since all <items> elements
> have the same structure <item name="XXXX"><value>YYY</value></item> I would
> like to know if it's possible to write a kind of function that could get
> arguments or use some variables to simplify the code.
> 

look at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#section-String-Functions. And I 
suggest that you get rid of the awkward french stuff and use 
xml:lang="fr", instead.

No reason to not fix it right now, I hope

Axel