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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common"
extension-element-prefixes="exsl">
<!--
A complete XML to JSON transformation utility adapted from
Doeke Zanstra's xml2json utility (http://code.google.com/p/xml2json-xslt/)
-->
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<!--
Example call
<xsl:call-template name="xml-to-json">
<xsl:with-param name="xml">
[Any XML or XSLT transformation]
</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
-->
<xsl:template name="xml-to-json">
<xsl:param name="xml" />
<xsl:apply-templates select="exsl:node-set($xml)" mode="xml-to-json" />
</xsl:template>
<!-- string -->
<xsl:template match="text()" mode="xml-to-json" >
<xsl:call-template name="escape-string">
<xsl:with-param name="s" select="."/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
<!-- Main template for escaping strings; used by above template and for object-properties
Responsibilities: placed quotes around string, and chain up to next filter, escape-bs-string -->
<xsl:template name="escape-string">
<xsl:param name="s"/>
<xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
<xsl:call-template name="escape-bs-string">
<xsl:with-param name="s" select="$s"/>
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
<!-- Escape the backslash (\) before everything else. -->
<xsl:template name="escape-bs-string">
<xsl:param name="s"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($s,'\')">
<xsl:call-template name="escape-quot-string">
<xsl:with-param name="s" select="concat(substring-before($s,'\'),'\\')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:call-template name="escape-bs-string">
<xsl:with-param name="s" select="substring-after($s,'\')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:call-template name="escape-quot-string">
<xsl:with-param name="s" select="$s"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<!-- Escape the double quote ("). -->
<xsl:template name="escape-quot-string">
<xsl:param name="s"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($s,'&quot;')">
<xsl:call-template name="encode-string">
<xsl:with-param name="s" select="concat(substring-before($s,'&quot;'),'\&quot;')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:call-template name="escape-quot-string">
<xsl:with-param name="s" select="substring-after($s,'&quot;')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:call-template name="encode-string">
<xsl:with-param name="s" select="$s"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<!-- Replace tab, line feed and/or carriage return by its matching escape code. Can't escape backslash
or double quote here, because they don't replace characters (&#x0; becomes \t), but they prefix
characters (\ becomes \\). Besides, backslash should be seperate anyway, because it should be
processed first. This function can't do that. -->
<xsl:template name="encode-string">
<xsl:param name="s"/>
<xsl:choose>
<!-- tab -->
<xsl:when test="contains($s,'&#x9;')">
<xsl:call-template name="encode-string">
<xsl:with-param name="s" select="concat(substring-before($s,'&#x9;'),'\t',substring-after($s,'&#x9;'))"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<!-- line feed -->
<xsl:when test="contains($s,'&#xA;')">
<xsl:call-template name="encode-string">
<xsl:with-param name="s" select="concat(substring-before($s,'&#xA;'),'\n',substring-after($s,'&#xA;'))"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<!-- carriage return -->
<xsl:when test="contains($s,'&#xD;')">
<xsl:call-template name="encode-string">
<xsl:with-param name="s" select="concat(substring-before($s,'&#xD;'),'\r',substring-after($s,'&#xD;'))"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="$s"/></xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<!-- number (no support for javascript mantise) -->
<xsl:template match="text()[not(string(number())='NaN')]" mode="xml-to-json" >
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="starts-with(string(.), '0')">
"<xsl:value-of select="string(.)"/>"
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="string(.)"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<!-- boolean, case-insensitive -->
<xsl:template match="text()[translate(.,'TRUE','true')='true']" mode="xml-to-json" >true</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text()[translate(.,'FALSE','false')='false']" mode="xml-to-json" >false</xsl:template>
<!-- item:null -->
<xsl:template match="*[count(child::node())=0]" mode="xml-to-json" >
<xsl:call-template name="escape-string">
<xsl:with-param name="s" select="local-name()"/>
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:text>:null</xsl:text>
<xsl:if test="following-sibling::*">,</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<!-- object -->
<xsl:template match="*" mode="xml-to-json" >
<xsl:if test="not(preceding-sibling::*)">{</xsl:if>
<xsl:call-template name="escape-string">
<xsl:with-param name="s" select="name()"/>
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:text>:</xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates select="child::node()" mode="xml-to-json" />
<xsl:if test="following-sibling::*">,</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="not(following-sibling::*)">}</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<!-- array -->
<xsl:template match="*[count(../*[name(../*)=name(.)])=count(../*) and count(../*)&gt;1]" mode="xml-to-json" >
<xsl:if test="not(preceding-sibling::*)">[</xsl:if>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="not(child::node())">
<xsl:text>null</xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:apply-templates select="child::node()" mode="xml-to-json" />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
<xsl:if test="following-sibling::*">,</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="not(following-sibling::*)">]</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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