Question

I have the following XML sample:

<finding>
    <title>Found something</title>
    <heading>Severity:</heading>
    <text>Really low.</text>
    <heading>URL:</heading>
    <text>https://www.something.com:443</text>
    <heading>Description:</heading>
    <text>We have found an issue</text>
    <heading>Impact:</heading>
    <text>This is bad.</text>
    <heading>Recommendations:</heading>
    <text>Fix it!.</text>
</finding>

Is this easily done with an XSLT? I am using Python with lxml if that helps.
What I would like to have is an XSLT that will give me the following:

<finding>
    <title>Found something</title>
    <severity>Really low.</severity>
    <url>https://www.something.com:443</url>
    <description>We have found an issue</description>
    <impact>This is bad.</impact>
    <recommendations>Fix it!</recommendations>
</finding>

Thanks!

Answer 1

XSLT would be a fairly decent way to do it. The selector for the text nodes is a little complex, but a template along the following lines should do it (just add modified versions of this for your other headings).

<xsl:template match="text[preceding-sibling::heading[1][text()='Description:']]">
    <description><xsl:value-of select="." /></description>
</xsl:template>

Note that the identity stylesheet is probably a reasonable starting point for adding your templates to.