<xsl:stylesheet 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0"
  default-space="strip"
  indent-result="yes">

<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:for-each select="@*|*[not(* or @*)]">
<xsl:attribute name="{name(.)}"><xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:apply-templates select="*[* or @*]|text()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>


</xsl:stylesheet>

appears to convert 


<atom  phase="gas">
   <name>Hydrogen</name>
   <symbol>H</symbol>
   <boiling_point units="Kelvin">20.28</boiling_point>
</atom>

into

<atom phase="gas" name="Hydrogen" symbol="H">
<boiling_point units="Kelvin">20.28</boiling_point>
</atom>


The first select picks up attributes and elements that don't have
element children or attributes, and makes attributes of them.
The second select picks up elements with element children or attributes,
and text nodes.

as written, comments, pis etc get thrown away, but could be added to the
second select.

David


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