Re: How to convert string to Node in xslt

Mukul,
 
Thanks a lot !
 
But it did not work.
 
<xsl:element name="{$v1}">
     <xsl:copy-of select="*/Request/RequestHeader"/>
</xsl:element>

----> it says that it requires QNAME. I tried to use "($v1)" , It was simply ignoring.
 
2)
 
xsl:copy-of select="*[local-name() = $v1]/Request/RequestHeader"/>

This was also ignoring siliently.  
 
I found something nodeset on Apache website which converts string to nodeset but due 
some reason that also does not work.
 
  xmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xalan"
                   exclude-result-prefixes="xalan">

<xsl:copy-of select="xalan:nodeset($v1)/Request/RequestHeader"/>
 
I do not know why this does not. It is also simply ignoring. I am using xalan-2.7.1
 
Regards
Ajay

--- On Sun, 11/20/11, Mukul Gandhi <[email protected]> wrote:


From: Mukul Gandhi <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: How to convert string to Node in xslt
To: "ajay bhadauria" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Sunday, November 20, 2011, 10:33 AM


Hi Ajay,
    Let's assume your variable "v1" would finally have a value in it (based on some selection logic that you want to write, which essentially extracts data from your input XML document), as below,

<xsl:variable name="v1" select="'SendRequest'"/>   <!-- or can have value 'ExchangeRequest' -->

(I've directly written the value for this variable, but in your case the value would be computed as you wrote)

You now essentially want to copy a node to output XSLT tree as below,

<xsl:copy-of select="$v1/Request/RequestHeader"/>

Of course this would not work, since 'v1' here is not a node and is a string value.

But I think, the following would probably work,

<xsl:copy-of select="*[local-name() = $v1]/Request/RequestHeader"/>

Or perhaps something like below would also work (which is closer to what you're asking i.e text to a node),

<xsl:element name="{$v1}">
     <xsl:copy-of select="*/Request/RequestHeader"/>
</xsl:element>

Does any of above approaches suites you better?


On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:12 PM, ajay bhadauria <[email protected]> wrote:





Hi Mukul,

Thanks a lot for reply.

The solution you gave will work. But in my xml file, the root element of document could  SendRequest or ExchangeRequest. So I was thinking that I could define a variable and based upon the value of  this variable ( SendRequest or ExchangeRequest) I can copy all the elements.

Sorry about that I have not mentioned in my last query.

So , if there anything is anything in the XSL which I can use it and convert text to node.


Regards
Ajay 






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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi