reverse element

[samueln12]

Hai all,

I need to reverse the following element:
Eg:
<link rid="www.goldco pd.com"><commen t style="inline"> www.goldcopd.co m</comment></link>

Should be:
<comment style="inline"> <link rid="www.goldco pd.com">www.gol dcopd.com</link></comment>

Can any one help me out

Thanks
Sam

[Dormilich]

that depends on the circumstances. do you use XSLT or a script language, is this a part of a XML, are you only interested in this part of the XML, ...

regards

[samueln12]

Can you help me out how to do with XSLT

[Dormilich]

sure, what do you have so far? (there are some ways to accomplish the task, but they all depend on the rest of the XML and XSLT)

[samueln12]

I am quite familer in XSLT and Perl.

But i don't what to go for Perl. I want to use XSLT as the transformer for this.

Case 1:

<comment>Available at: </comment><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="www.goldcopd.com"><comment>www.goldcopd.com</comment></ext-link>

i am able to get the text

<xsl:template match="comment[not(parent::ext-link)]">
	<comment><xsl:apply-templates/></comment>
</xsl:template>

Case 2:

<comment>Available at: </comment><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="www.goldcopd.com"><comment>www.goldcopd.com</comment></ext-link>

<xsl:template match="comment[(parent::ext-link)]">
...
</xsl:template>

Please guide me how to write this.

Thanks
Sam

[Dormilich]

do you want to switch the tags as they are, or do some adjustments too?

[samueln12]

<comment>Availa ble at: </comment><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="www .goldcopd.com"> <comment>www.go ldcopd.com</comment></ext-link>

The XSLT transformation should work for the above occurance. I don't want to lose data. Because this is for STM books and journals. I want to retain the attribute in their element.

<comment>Availa ble at: </comment><ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="www .goldcopd.com"> See <comment>www.go ldcopd.com</comment></ext-link>

For this occurance retain the XML as is..

Thank you for your help
Sam

[jkmyoung]

So you are only changing the <ext-link> nodes that don't have a direct text() node? Like :?

<xsl:template match="ext-link[not(text())][comment]">
  <comment>
    <xsl:copy-of select="comment/@*"/>
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
      <xsl:value-of select="comment"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </comment>
</xsl:template>

Or should the <xsl:value-of select="comment "/> be
like <xsl:apply-templates select="comment " mode="inside"/>?

[samueln12]

Many Thanks its working perfectly. Once again thank you very much