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Indiana Dave
Indiana Dave

Reputation: 72

How to apply the same transform to many similarly-named xml files with one transform

I need to change an attribute to a certain value in several .xml files all at once using one xslt. The filenames all begin with a common phrase and end with a unique number (such as abc01.xml, abc02.xml, abc03.xml, etc.). Is there a way to target a collection of .xml files like this with one xsl transform?

Here is what I've tried so far, which doesn't work:

<?xml version="2.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:template select="document(../SavedDashboards/*.xml)" match="Tab/@Caption">
      <xsl:attribute name="Caption">Dashboard</xsl:attribute>
    </xsl:template>
  </xsl:document>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 66

Answers (1)

Martin Honnen
Martin Honnen

Reputation: 167716

It depends on the XSLT processor you use, for instance Saxon 9 as documented at http://saxonica.com/html/documentation/using-xsl/commandline.html allows you to process a directory of files if you call it as e.g. java -jar saxon9.jar -s:inputDirectoryName -o:outputDirectoryName -xsl:sheet.xsl. And your stylesheet sheet.xsl would then simply do

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

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

    <xsl:template match="Tab/@Caption">
      <xsl:attribute name="Caption">Dashboard</xsl:attribute>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Upvotes: 1

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