Question

Im looking to transform a piece of XML into a Pipe|Seperated|Value format using XSLT.

However I only wish to select certain nodes to transform into this format.

How would I go about this?

The XML resides within a namespace which can be declared as “x”

Sample XML structure:

<Message>
    <Top>
        <a></a>
        <b></b>
    </Top>
    <Middle>
         <c></c>
    </Middle>
    <Bottom>
         <d></d>
         <e></e>
         <f></f>
         <g></g>
    </Bottom>
</Message>

I wish to select the values of nodes: c, e and f.

Answer 1

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

  <xsl:output method="text"/>

  <xsl:template match="c">
    <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
    <xsl:text>|</xsl:text>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="e">
    <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
    <xsl:text>|</xsl:text>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="f">
    <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
    <xsl:text>&#0010;</xsl:text>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="text()"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>