The following example transforms an XML file to a different format, by using an XSLT (transformation-stylesheet).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl:template match="/"> <!--Use apply-templates to create a loop...--> <website> <xsl:apply-templates select="manuals/manual"/> </website> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="manuals/manual"> <article> <title> <!--id, title--> <xsl:value-of select="concat(id,' - ',title)"/> </title> <writer> <!--written_by--> <xsl:value-of select="written_by"/> </writer> <category> <!--category--> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="category='GNU/Linux'">GNU</xsl:when> <xsl:when test="category='MS Windows Server'">MSOS</xsl:when> <xsl:when test="category='MSSQL Server'">MSSQL</xsl:when> <xsl:when test="category='MySQL Server'">MYSQL</xsl:when> <xsl:when test="category='Netwerk'">NET</xsl:when> <xsl:when test="category='PowerShell Scripting'">MSPSH</xsl:when> <xsl:when test="category='VisualBasic Scripting'">MSWSH</xsl:when> <xsl:when test="category='XML'">XML</xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise>Category unknown</xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </category> </article> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
An example of an input and output file based on above XSLT transformation.
INPUT: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <manuals xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <manual> <title>PowerShell Unzip Function</title> <written_by>Tim van Kooten Niekerk</written_by> <category>PowerShell Scripting</category> <id>78</id> <year>2013</year> </manual> </manuals> OUTPUT: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <website> <article> <title>78 - PowerShell Unzip Function</title> <writer>Tim van Kooten Niekerk</writer> <category>MSPSH</category> </article> </website>