Question

I have an XML file from which I need to delete an attribute with name “Id” (It must be deleted wherever it appears) and also I need to rename the parent tag, while keeping its attributes and child elements unaltered .. Can you please help me modifying the code. At a time, am able to achieve only one of the two requirements .. I mean I can delete that attribute completely from the document or I can change the parent tag ..
Here is my code to which removes attribute “Id”:

<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="@Id[parent::*]">
  </xsl:template>

Please help me changing the parent tag name from “Root” to “Batch”.

Answer 1

None of the offered solutions really solves the problem: they simply rename an element named “Root” (or even just the top element), without verifying that this element has an “Id” attribute.

wwerner is closest to a correct solution, but renames the parent of the parent.

Here is a solution that has the following properties:

• It is correct.
• It is short.
• It is generalized (the replacement name is contained in a variable).

Here is the code:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:variable name="vRep" select="'Batch'"/>

  <xsl:template match="node()|@*">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="@Id"/>

  <xsl:template match="*[@Id]">
    <xsl:element name="{$vRep}">
      <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>