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luigi
luigi

Reputation: 35

How can I change an attribute in a parent node?

This is the XML block:

<Object type="proto">
    <Name value="test1"/>
    <Enabled value="1"/>
    <System value="active"/>
    <Time value="10"/>
</Object>
<Object type="proto">
    <Name value="test2"/>
    <Enabled value="1"/>
    <System value="active"/>
    <Time value="20"/>
</Object>

How do I change the value of 'Time' only for 'test1' during a copy?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1154

Answers (1)

har07
har07

Reputation: 89325

This is one possible way :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl"
>
    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

    <xsl:template match="@* | node()">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="Object[Name/@value='test1']/Time">
      <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:attribute name="value">30</xsl:attribute>
      </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Brief explanation regarding xsl:templates being used :

  • <xsl:template match="@* | node()">... : Identity template; copies nodes and attributes to the output XML, unchanged.
  • <xsl:template match="Object[Name/@value='test1']/Time">... : Overrides identity template for <Time> element, that is direct child of <Object> having child Name/@value equals test1. This template copies the matched <Time> element and change the attribute value to 30.

Upvotes: 2

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