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XSLT to transform xml to html generically. Converts all elements to divs with class= elementName, and all attributes to data-attributes. Updated to include text nodes and format output. Elements with an "inline" attribute are converted to spans.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:strip-space elements="*" />
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="node()|@*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<h2>Transformed XML</h2>
<xsl:apply-templates select="/*"/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="node()">
<div>
<xsl:attribute name="class">
<xsl:value-of select="local-name(.)"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="draggable">true</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:for-each select="@*">
<xsl:attribute name="{concat('data-',local-name(.))}">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
</div>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="node()[@inline]">
<span>
<xsl:attribute name="class">
<xsl:value-of select="local-name(.)"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:for-each select="@*">
<xsl:attribute name="{concat('data-',local-name(.))}">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
</span>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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