html - Select all child elements with all attributes of child elements in a table. -

suppose have following xml:

<parent>     <child1 attr1="value" attr2="value" attr3="value"/>     <child1 attr1="value" attr2="value" attr3="value"/>     <child1 attr1="value" attr2="value" attr3="value"/> </parent> 

i want put elements of type child1 rows table consisting of column each attribute - simple enough. problem, however, type of child element , number/types of child elements attributes vary between instances of parent. here's example of instances of parent might contain

<parent>     <child2 attr1="value" attr2="value" attr3="value" attr4="value"/>     <child2 attr1="value" attr2="value" attr3="value" attr4="value"/>     <child2 attr1="value" attr2="value" attr3="value" attr4="value"/> </parent> 

the news there never 2 types of child elements within parent, long have when clause each possible type of child element , associated attributes, can make work. bad news there lot of variations on child element , going take long time ensure i've accounted every single 1 of them.

my question - there way indiscriminately each selects child elements without looking specific type while selecting of child elements attributes table format automatically without specificying following each attribute explicitly within foreach:

<td><xsl:value-of select="attr1"/></td> 

this result in varying types of tables depending on type of child element within parent instance , associated variation of attributes.

is possible or out of luck?

sure, it's possible. let's want each <parent> node turn <table>. (obviously, adjust select xpath parent nodes in incoming document).

 <xsl:template match="/">      <xsl:apply-templates select="indoc/parent"/>  </xsl:template>   <xsl:template match="parent">      <table>          <xsl:apply-templates/>      </table>  </xsl:template> 

now, let's care element names, , want turn childnnn nodes rows. we'll for-each turn each attribute (the @* xpath) <td>.

 <xsl:template match="*[starts-with(local-name(), 'child')]">      <tr>          <xsl:for-each select="@*">              <td>                  <xsl:value-of select="concat(local-name(), ':', .)"/>             </td>         </xsl:for-each>     </tr> </xsl:template> 

if want every node under <parent> turn row, no matter element name is, can either condense two-level nested for-each, or use template modes:

 <xsl:template match="parent">      <table>          <xsl:apply-templates mode="make-row" />      </table>  </xsl:template>   <xsl:template match="*" mode="make-row">      <tr>          <xsl:for-each select="@*">              <td>                  <xsl:value-of select="concat(local-name(), ':', .)"/>             </td>         </xsl:for-each>     </tr> </xsl:template>