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copied!<p><strong>A not so verbose, pure "push style" XSLT 1.0 solution that doesn't use a hardcoded string for the name of the generated attribute</strong>:</p> <pre><code><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> <xsl:template match="cars"> <records> <xsl:apply-templates/> </records> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="car"> <record> <xsl:apply-templates/> </record> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="entrydata"> <xsl:attribute name="{@name}"> <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:attribute> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="text"> <xsl:if test="position() >1">, </xsl:if> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> </code></pre> <p><strong>When this transformation is applied on the provided XML document:</strong></p> <pre><code><cars> <car> <entrydata columnnumber="4" name="Colour"> <text>Red</text> </entrydata> </car> <car> <entrydata columnnumber="4" name="Colour"> <textlist> <text>Yellow</text> <text>Blue</text> </textlist> </entrydata> </car> </cars> </code></pre> <p><strong>the wanted, correct result is produced</strong>:</p> <pre><code><records> <record Colour="Red"/> <record Colour="Yellow, Blue"/> </records> </code></pre> <p><strong>Explanation</strong>:</p> <p>Proper use of templates, pattern matching, AVTs and the <code>position()</code> function.</p> <hr> <p><strong>II. A simpler, XSLT 2.0 solution</strong></p> <pre><code><xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> <xsl:template match="cars"> <records> <xsl:apply-templates/> </records> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="car"> <record> <xsl:apply-templates/> </record> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="entrydata"> <xsl:attribute name="{@name}"> <xsl:value-of select=".//text" separator=", "/> </xsl:attribute> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> </code></pre> <p><strong>When this transformation is applied on the same XML document (above), the same correct result is produced:</strong></p> <pre><code><records> <record Colour="Red"/> <record Colour="Yellow, Blue"/> </records> </code></pre> <p><strong>Explanation</strong>:</p> <p>Proper use of templates, pattern matching, AVTs and the <code>separator</code> attribute of <code>xsl:value-of</code></p>

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