Transforming XML content to array

Question

As the reverse case of this post, how it's possible to transform content of an XML document to array using XSLT.

For this:

<Records>
    <item>value1</item>
    <item>value2</item>
    <item>value3</item>
    <item>value4</item>
    <item>value5</item>
</Records>

The desired result is something like this:

[value1, value2, value3, value4, value5]

What's the idea?

@leppie, Sorry, I forgot mentioning XSLT :)

Eilia
– Eilia

2015-01-20 07:08:25 +00:00
Commented Jan 20, 2015 at 7:08 — Eilia
– Eilia, Commented Jan 20, 2015 at 7:08

Saurav · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-20 09:29:13Z

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Hope this helps..

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" exclude-result-prefixes="xsl">
  <xsl:output method="text"/>
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:variable name="countItems" select="count(Records/item)"/>
    [<xsl:for-each select="Records/item">
      <xsl:value-of select="."/>
      <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="position()=$countItems"/>
        <xsl:otherwise>,</xsl:otherwise>
      </xsl:choose>
    </xsl:for-each>]
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

XSLT 1.0 can be used to generate a resultant xml,text or HTML file from the source xml file. You can get the resultant data from the file created via XSLT

edited Jan 20, 2015 at 9:29

answered Jan 20, 2015 at 7:12

Saurav

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4 Comments

Eilia Over a year ago

Thanks for that, it works. But I think it is not what I'm looking for. One more questions, is there any built-in array structure in XSLT. In fact, I want to manipulate the array as a data structure w.r.t its index. Is this result capable of doing that? Any idea?

Saurav Over a year ago

Well XSLT works on only xml structure data. What you can do is create a variable within xslt that contains a key/value pair and then on that variable you can find a value using the key

Eilia Over a year ago

Thanks for the answer. I'll try for that. Of course, this (stackoverflow.com/questions/11076920/…) seems to be the solution for that.

Linga Murthy C S Over a year ago

@Saurav, are you sure about it? I can see an extra comma getting aded at the end..

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