Assign value from generate-id(.) to attribute : generate id « XSLT stylesheet « XML Tutorial

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File: Data.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<greet>
 <greeting xml:lang="en">Welcome</greeting>
 <greeting xml:lang="fr">Bienvenue</greeting>
 <greeting xml:lang="es">Bienvenido</greeting>
 <greeting xml:lang="de">Willkommen</greeting>
</greet>

File: Transform.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:output doctype-system="greeting.dtd" />

  <xsl:template match="greet">
    <xsl:element name="greeting">
      <xsl:apply-templates select="greeting" />
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="greeting">
    <xsl:element name="welcome">
      <xsl:attribute name="xml:lang"><xsl:value-of
          select="@xml:lang" />
      </xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="id"><xsl:value-of
          select="generate-id(.)" />
      </xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:value-of select="current()" />
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE greeting
  SYSTEM "greeting.dtd">
<greeting>
   <welcome xml:lang="en" id="d2e3">Welcome</welcome>
   <welcome xml:lang="fr" id="d2e6">Bienvenue</welcome>
   <welcome xml:lang="es" id="d2e9">Bienvenido</welcome>
   <welcome xml:lang="de" id="d2e12">Willkommen</welcome>
</greeting>