Subject: RE: Generating Sequential IDs
From: "Andrew Welch" <ajwelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 12:41:33 +0100
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> I want to generate the sequence ids for all the nodes in the
> xml tree. For example my source xml looks like this..
> <A>
> <B></B>
> <C>
> <D></D>
> </C>
> <E>
> <F>
> <G></G>
> </F>
> </E>
> </A>
>
> I want the output xml like..
>
> <A id=1>
> <B id=2></B>
> <C id=3>
> <D id=4></D>
> </C>
> <E id=5>
> <F id=6>
> <G id=8></G>
> </F>
> </E>
> </A>
>
> Can any one give me the xslt code for this..
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
<xsl:attribute name="id">
<xsl:number level="any" count="*"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
...but if you are using Java I would recommend doing this using an
XMLFilter instead of XSLT.
cheers
andrew
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