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Asked: 2026-05-27T01:57:26+00:00

I have a source xml that looks something like this: <item> <id>1</id> <property name=representative_email><value>Jallu.Kola@foo.bar.com</value></property>

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I have a source xml that looks something like this:

<item>
    <id>1</id>
    <property name="representative_email"><value>Jallu.Kola@foo.bar.com</value></property>
    <property name="representative_name"><value>Jallu Kola</value></property>
    <property name="representative_phone"><value>555 123 456</value></property>
    <property name="representative_email"><value>Sala.Rakas@foo.bar.com</value></property>
    <property name="representative_name"><value>Sala Rakas</value></property>
    <property name="representative_phone"><value>555 2314 124</value></property>
</item>
<item>
    <id>2</id>
    <property name="representative_email"><value>Sala.Rakas@foo.bar.com</value></property>
    <property name="representative_name"><value>Sala Rakas</value></property>
    <property name="representative_phone"><value>555 2314 124</value></property>
</item>
<item>
    <id>3</id>
    <property name="representative_email"><value>Jallu.Kola@foo.bar.com</value></property>
    <property name="representative_name"><value>Jallu Kola</value></property>
    <property name="representative_phone"><value>555 123 456</value></property>
    <property name="representative_email"><value>Sala.Rakas@foo.bar.com</value></property>
    <property name="representative_name"><value>Sala Rakas</value></property>
    <property name="representative_phone"><value>555 2314 124</value></property>
    <property name="representative_email"><value>ville.kalle@foo.bar.com</value></property>
    <property name="representative_name"><value>Ville Kalle</value></property>
    <property name="representative_phone"><value>555 124 124124</value></property>
</item>

Unfortunately there’s not much I can do about this other than use xslt to convert it to something more sensible.
I would like to convert it to look like this:

<item>
    <id>
    <representatives>
        <representative>
            <email></email>
            <name></name>
            </phone></phone>
        </representative
    </representatives
</item>

Any ideas how this can be achieved with xslt?I’m thinking that I need to collect the representative_* elements into memory while procedding an element. Once the end of that item element is reached, I should output the new element. Under that I would need to create a element for each group of the email+name+phone elements that appear in sequence.

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  1. Editorial Team

    So, if each group always contain all 3 elements, you could iterate over one of them then select others by the same position:

    <xsl:template match="item">
  <item>
    <xsl:copy-of select="id"/>
    <representatives>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="property[@name='representative_email']"/>
    </representatives>
  </item>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="property">
  <representative>
    <email>
      <xsl:value-of select="../property[@name='representative_email'][position()]"/>
    </email>
    <name>
      <xsl:value-of select="../property[@name='representative_name'][position()]"/>
    </name>
    <phone>
      <xsl:value-of select="../property[@name='representative_phone'][position()]"/>
    </phone>
  </representative>
</xsl:template>
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