Question

I have following xml file:

        <table name="countries">
            <column name="id">1</column>
            <column name="name">Abkhazia</column>
            <column name="code">XZ</column>
            <column name="phone_code">+995</column>
            <column name="flag">xz.gif</column>
        </table>

how can i format this xml to something like this?

        <countries>
            <id>1</id>
            <name>Abkhazia</name>
            <code>XZ</code>
            <phone_code>+995</phone_code>
            <flag>xz.gif</flag>
        </countries>

is there some online resources for this?

Answer 1

This short and simple transformation:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
 <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

 <xsl:template match="*">
  <xsl:element name="{@name}">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:element>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

when applied on the provided XML document:

<table name="countries">
    <column name="id">1</column>
    <column name="name">Abkhazia</column>
    <column name="code">XZ</column>
    <column name="phone_code">+995</column>
    <column name="flag">xz.gif</column>
</table>

produces the wanted, correct result:

<countries>
   <id>1</id>
   <name>Abkhazia</name>
   <code>XZ</code>
   <phone_code>+995</phone_code>
   <flag>xz.gif</flag>
</countries>