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Asked: 2026-05-22T20:38:35+00:00

So I have a XML document generated by my application like this: <?xml version=1.0

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So I have a XML document generated by my application like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE AddressBook>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="stylesheet.xsl"?>
<AddressBook>
 <Item>
  <UserGeneratedElementName1 class="info">Whatever blah blah</UserGeneratedElementName1>
  <UserGeneratedElementName2 class="info">Whatever blah blah</UserGeneratedElementName2>
 </Item>
 <Item>
  <UserGeneratedElementName3 class="info">Whatever blah blah</UserGeneratedElementName3>
 </Item>
 ...
 ...
 Other Items with user-generated elements with user-generated content...
</AddressBook>

And I want to turn it into a HTML document similar to this:

<html>
<head>
 <title>AddressBook</title>
</head>
<body>
 <div class="root">
  <div class="item">
   <b>UserGeneratedElementName1:</b> Whatever blah blah
   <b>UserGeneratedElementName2:</b> Whatever blah blah
  </div>
  <div class="item">
   <b>UserGeneratedElementName3:</b> Whatever blah blah
  </div>
  ...
  ...
  Other transformed items...
 </div>
</body>
</html>

I have tried to get a grasp of the XSLT syntax, but all the guides were either too vague to help me with this or too deep. Also XSLT syntax seems quite confusing.
Thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Take a look at this question here

    Is there an XSLT name-of element?

    You can use 

    <xsl:value-of select ="name(.)"/>

    or

    <xsl:value-of select ="local-name()"/>

    to get the name of a node, depending on if you want to include the full prefixed name, or just the local portion.

    You should be able to piece those together with xsl:for-each blocks to iterate through the first 3 levels of items and generate the HTML you’re looking for.

    Something like this would work for a fixed number of levels.

        <xsl:for-each select="*">
        <html>
            <head>
                <title><xsl:value-of select="local-name()" /></title>
            </head>
            <body>
                <div class="root">
                    <xsl:for-each select="*">
                        <div>
                            <xsl:attribute name="class">
                                <xsl:value-of select="local-name()" />
                            </xsl:attribute>
                            <xsl:for-each select="*">
                                <b><xsl:value-of select="local-name()" />:</b> <xsl:value-of select="." />
                            </xsl:for-each>
                        </div>
                    </xsl:for-each>
                </div>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:for-each>

    A more generic approach would look something more like:

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

<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" version="4.0"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:for-each select="*">
        <html>
            <head>
                <title><xsl:value-of select="local-name()" /></title>
            </head>
            <body>
                <div class="root">
                        <xsl:call-template name="recurseElement">
                            <xsl:with-param name="element" select="." />
                        </xsl:call-template>
                </div>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="recurseElement">
    <xsl:param name="element" />
    <xsl:for-each select="$element/*">
        <xsl:choose>
                <xsl:when test="count(child::*)>0">
                    <div>
                        <xsl:attribute name="class">
                            <xsl:value-of select="local-name()" />
                        </xsl:attribute>
                        <xsl:call-template name="recurseElement">
                            <xsl:with-param name="element" select="." />
                        </xsl:call-template>
                    </div>
                </xsl:when>
                <xsl:otherwise>
                    <b><xsl:value-of select="local-name()" />:</b> <xsl:value-of select="." />
                </xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:choose>
    </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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