In article <af913759.0406011546.1feda850@p...>,
J Trost <jt6211@e...> wrote:

>I need to be able to convert XML like this:
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
><java version="1.4.2_03" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder">
> <object class="javax.swing.JButton">
>  <string>Hello, world</string>
> </object>
></java>

>Into XML like this

>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
>&lt;java version="1.4.2_03" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder"&gt;
> &lt;object class="javax.swing.JButton"&gt;
>  &lt;string&gt;Hello, world&lt;/string&gt;
> &lt;/object&gt;
>&lt;/java&gt;

You can't do the XML declaration, because XSLT doesn't see it.  You can
do the rest, but it will be tedious.

You need a template that matches any element.  It should then output
"<" as text, followed by the local-name() of the element, and a space.
Then apply-templates to the attributes.  Output ">", then apply-templates
to the children.  Handle the end-tag in the same way.

The template for the attributes will be even more tedious, because you
will need to handle the possibility of quotes in the attribute value.

Similarly, the template for text will have to handle & and < specially
(you will need to output &amp;amp; and &amp;lt;).

If your XML may use namespaces, you will need to look at the namespace
nodes to determine appropriate prefixes for the element and attribute
names, and you will have to output namespace declarations.

You really don't want to do this.  Use sed instead.

-- Richard