XML-XSLT doubts 1

[NirvanaX]

I am trying to convert an XML Configuration files to text files.I had few concerns. My schema allows creation of different formats for elements. For example if i have 2 possibilities to populate an xml file:
<Dir Path="C:\MyFolder\">
<FileName> Test.txt</Name>
</Dir>
or
<Dir Path="C:\MyFolder\" >
<WildCard> *.txt</WildCard>
</Dir>

i have to write a transformation(xslt) to transform to text which retrieves the Path attribute of the element Dir and outputs something like this:
Dir: "C:\MyFolder\"
FileName: Test.txt

and if it sees the wildcard the text file should output as follows:
Dir:"C:\MyFolder\"
WildCard: *.txt

I know i can do a <xsl:for-each> to parse through each directory element, and use <xsl:value of select="FileName"> for retrieving element contents. i was wondering how xslt maps the choice i may have in different xml files and how to retrieve attribute Path from the <Dir> element and output in the text as described? I tried googling for this...and nobody gave a clearcut way to retrieve node attributes. Can you provide me insights into this?

thanks

 

[k5tm]

The most clearcut way to retrieve attributes is to use XPath, in particular, check out the '@' character. For example, to select the Path attribute in my parent's element, you might consider an XPath expression something like:

../@Path

Tom Morrison

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[JontyMC]

So you wanna use something like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">[/URL]
  <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="*/Dir"/>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="Dir">
    <xsl:text>Dir: "</xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="@Path"/>
    <xsl:text>"&#10;FileName: </xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="FileName|WildCard"/>
    <xsl:text>&#10;&#10;</xsl:text>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Jon

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