Question

I want to do something like this Can you transform unordered xml to match an xsd:sequence order? bu a little more complex than that. For example:

<person> 
   <addressList>
        <address>
            <city>Chicago</city>
            <state>IL</state>
            <zip>41111</zip>
        </address>
        <address>
            <state>MO</state>
            <zip>64521</zip>
            <city>Kansas City</city>
        </address>
   </addressList>  
   <lastname>The BFG</lastname> 
   <firstname>1234567890</firstname>
</person>

I don’t have control in the schema so this sould match the schema, but when I try to deserialize throw an error… so the solution is use XSLT to transform this to match XSD format. I just want to get the same input but in different order for instance something like this:

Note that City in the 2nd address, first name, and last name was move.

<person>  
   <lastname>The BFG</lastname> 
   <firstname>1234567890</firstname>
   <addressList>
        <address>
            <city>Chicago</city>
            <state>IL</state>
            <zip>41111</zip>
        </address>
        <address>
            <city>Kansas City</city>
            <state>MO</state>
            <zip>64521</zip>
        </address>
   </addressList> 
</person>

Answer 1

Based on the previous link (Transform XML into specified ordering (DTD -> XSD)), the only changes we have to make are the xml inside of XSLT document and the name of the root (Top for person) and the new XSLT look like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
   xmlns:my="my-namespace" 
   exclude-result-prefixes="my">
  <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
    <my:person>  
       <my:lastname/> 
       <my:firstname/>
       <my:addressList>
            <my:address>
                <my:city/>
                <my:state/>
                <my:zip/>
            </my:address>
       </my:addressList> 
    </my:person>
  <xsl:template match="my:*">
    <xsl:param name="source"/>
    <xsl:variable name="current-lookup-elem" select="current()"/>
    <xsl:for-each select="$source/*[name()=local-name($current-lookup-elem)]">
      <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="$current-lookup-elem/*">
          <xsl:with-param name="source" select="current()"/>
        </xsl:apply-templates>
        <xsl:copy-of select="text()"/>
      </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="/person">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="document('')/*/my:*">
      <xsl:with-param name="source" select="/"/>
    </xsl:apply-templates>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>