xmlxslttransform

Convert all element names to lower case with XSL?

In XSL, how does one convert all element names in a document to lower case before processing it? We're using XSLT 2.0, and we've tried the following but it does not work...

<A>
  <ITEMS>
    <ITEM/>
    <ITEM/>
  </ITEMS>
</A>


<xsl:transform>

  <xsl:template match="*">      
    <xsl:element name="{lower-case(local-name())}">
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>     

//do work here...  
<xsl:apply-templates>
  ...

</xsl:transform>
Solution

  • It works under Altova XMLSpy:

    XSLT:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" >
<xsl:output exclude-result-prefixes="xsl xs" indent="yes"/>

  <xsl:template match="*">      
    <xsl:element name="{lower-case(local-name())}">
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>    

</xsl:stylesheet>

    XML Input:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<A>
  <ITEMS>
    <ITEM/>
    <ITEM/>
  </ITEMS>
</A>

    XML output:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<a>
    <items>
        <item/>
        <item/>
    </items>
</a>