OK, here is some code to do this. It is a combination of XSLT and Java. I use it for something I was working on which sounds very similar to what you need. I hope it helps....
This is a routine used to enable you to run XSLT against XML in memory and output the result to a String. The "inData" is your XML as a String. The "xslFileData" is your XSLT.
public static String process(String inData, String xslFileData) throws FileNotFoundException {
String returnString = "";
try {
// Create transformer factory
TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
// Use the factory to create a template containing the xsl file
Templates template = factory.newTemplates(new StreamSource(
new StringReader(xslFileData)));
// Use the template to create a transformer
Transformer xformer = template.newTransformer();
// Prepare the input and output files
Source source = new StreamSource(new StringReader(inData));
StringWriter outWriter = new StringWriter();
Result result = new StreamResult(outWriter);
// Apply the xsl file to the source file and write the result
// to the output file
xformer.transform(source, result);
StringBuffer sb = outWriter.getBuffer();
returnString = sb.toString();
} catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
// An error occurred in the XSL file
} catch (TransformerException e) {
// An error occurred while applying the XSL file
// Get location of error in input file
SourceLocator locator = e.getLocator();
int col = locator.getColumnNumber();
int line = locator.getLineNumber();
String publicId = locator.getPublicId();
String systemId = locator.getSystemId();
}
return returnString;
}
You will need the following imports for the above Java....
import java.io.*;
import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.*;
The XSLT you can use (you may wish to tweak this) is below (I borrowed this XSLT from here )....
<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:variable name="vApos">'</xsl:variable>
<xsl:template match="*[@* or not(*)] ">
<xsl:if test="not(*)">
<xsl:apply-templates select="ancestor-or-self::*" mode="path"/>
<xsl:value-of select="concat('=',$vApos,.,$vApos)"/>
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|*"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*" mode="path">
<xsl:value-of select="concat('/',name())"/>
<xsl:variable name="vnumPrecSiblings" select=
"count(preceding-sibling::*[name()=name(current())])"/>
<xsl:if test="$vnumPrecSiblings">
<xsl:value-of select="concat('[', $vnumPrecSiblings +1, ']')"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@*">
<xsl:apply-templates select="../ancestor-or-self::*" mode="path"/>
<xsl:value-of select="concat('[@',name(), '=',$vApos,.,$vApos,']')"/>
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
If you create a job that reads in your XML and the above XSLT as Strings and passes those Strings to a routine with the method I have given you, it will return the majority of what you require.
