XSLT 1.0 Basic Transformation Example

The following example shows a basic XSLT transformation from one XML to another with a different structure.
 

 

Prerequisites

I’m assuming that the reader has the following skills:

 

Basic Transformation

Let’s begin with this XML:
 

Reservation.xml

And we want to transform it into a different XML, like this:
 

ReservationInfo.xml

 
It’s the same data but in different order. To obtain this result, we need a XSLT transformation like this:
 

Transformation.xslt

 

You can notice a few things about the XSLT above:
 

  • You have to write your new XML tree and populate it with the values of the old one.
  • The tag xsl:value-of select=”” is the basic selector for getting information about a node or attribute.
  • If you want to insert an attribute inside a node, follow the steps from line 29 to 31
  • To get the value of an attribute, add an @ before the name of the attribute. Look at line 10

 
Cheers!

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