XSL transformation of child nodes

[Ranadhir Nag]

I have an xml similar to this :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<input:root xmlns:input="cross-field-validation-namespace">
<input:event>
<input:element>UserName.SWEUserName</input:element>
<input:elementtype>INPUT</input:elementtype>
<input:eventtype>deactivate</input:eventtype>
<input:value>LOGO</input:value>
</input:event>
<input:event>
...................................
..................................
</input:event>
..........................
.........................
</input:root>

I need to transform it to the following:
.......
<properties>
<property name="element" string_value="UserName.SWEUserName"/>
<property name="elementtype" string_value="INPUT" />
<property name="eventtype" string_value="deactivate" />
<property name="value" string_value="LOGO" />
</properties>
............

i.e all child nodes under the 'event' node get transformed to the attributes of the property node(node name as 'name' attribute and value as 'string_value').
Moreover , the number and name of child nodes under the different 'event' nodes can vary.

How can we write a XSL template to convert all chiild nodes under 'event' (however much there may be) into the desired format.

[Paul Clapham]

I assume you can do most of this but you are just missing one thing? Then I think that one thing is the local-name() function. Give that a try.

[Ranadhir Nag]

You were right.
With that things become easy.
The template looks like this - atleast from what I could figure out
<xsl:template match="input:root">
<xsl:apply-templates select="input:event" />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="input:event">
<properties>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</properties>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="input:event/*">
<property name="{local-name()}" string_value="{.}"/>
</xsl:template>


But there is a small twist to this.Is there soem way to test whether a node has numeric value or not.A pseudocode will be like this :
if(test{.} is a number) then
<property name="{local-name()}" num_value="{.}"/>
else
<property name="{local-name()}" string_value="{.}"/>

[Paul Clapham]

Sure. Apply the number() function to the node, if it returns NaN then the value wasn't a number.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#section-Number-Functions