xslt convert xml string in xml elements

here's a tricky one.

I have the following XML

<test>
     <testElement SomeAttribute="<otherxml><otherElement>test test</otherElement></otherxml>">
      </testElement>
</test>

Using XSLT, I want to transform this XML to have the following result.

<test>
     <testElement>
        <SomeAttributeTransformedToElement>
          <otherxml>
               <otherElement>test test</otherElement>
          </otherxml>
        </SomeAttributeTransformedToElement>
      </testElement>
</test>

Basically, some text in an attribute must be transformed to actual elements in the final XML

Any ideas how to achieve that in XSLT?

Alex

You can achieve that by disabling output escaping. However, note that your input document is not a valid XML document (< is illegal in attribute values and needs escaping). I therefore changed your input document as follows:

Input document

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<test>
  <testElement SomeAttribute="&lt;otherxml>&lt;otherElement>test test&lt;/otherElement>&lt;/otherxml>">
  </testElement>
</test>

XSLT

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

  <xsl:template match="@* | node()">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="@SomeAttribute">
    <SomeAttributeTransformedToElement>
      <xsl:value-of select="." disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
    </SomeAttributeTransformedToElement>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Be aware that with disable-output-escaping="yes" there is no longer a guarantee that the produced output document is a well-formed XML document.