Wildcards and reg-ex use in XSLT

Question

I am new to XML and XSLT technology. I am trying to convert one XML into other based on some rules.
The input XML is <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<root>
     <person>
          <id>1 </id>
          <Add_1_street1>happy street</Add_1_street1>
          <Add_1_street2>A Road</Add_1_street2>
          <Add_1_city>City1</Add_1_city>
     </person>
     <person>
          <id>2</id>
          <Add_1_street1>sad street</Add_1_street1>
          <Add_1_street2>B Road</Add_1_street2>
          <Add_1_city>City1</Add_1_city>
          <Add_2_street1>Bore street</Add_2_street1>
          <Add_2_street2>c Road</Add_2_street2>
          <Add_2_city>City2</Add_2_city>
     </person>
</root>And want to convert it to<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<root>
     <person>
          <id>1 </id>
                <Add>
          <street1>happy street</street1>
          <street2>A Road</street2>
          <city>City1</city>
                </Add>
     </person>
     <person>
          <id>2</id>
                <Add>
          <street1>sad street</street1>
          <street2>B Road</street2>
          <city>City1</city>
                </Add>
                <Add>
          <street1>Bore street</street1>
          <street2>c Road</street2>
          <city>City2</city>
                </Add>
     </person>
</root>Can anyone suggest me, what kind of XSL do I have to write to achieve this? All my attempts till now have failed :(
If I am not clear with my requirement, kindly let me know.
Thanks in advance.
Edited by: no_screen_name on Aug 6, 2009 2:51 AM

Answer 1

no_screen_name wrote:
No. A person can have any number of Add s. There is no schema associated with it.Well, unfortunately you are stuck with a bad XML design. You should really have something like this instead:
<Add_street add="1" street="1">happy street</Add_street>So if that was your idea, I would recommend you fix it. If it's somebody else's idea, I would recommend that they fix it too, but realistically that isn't going to happen because people with bad ideas are more resistant to fixing them than other people.
As for what kind of XSLT you have to write, let me suggest that the XPath name() function gives you the element name. There are also string-manipulation functions in XSLT.