p:rename (3.0) 

Summary

<p:declare-step type="p:rename">
  <input port="source" primary="true" content-types="xml html" sequence="false"/>
  <output port="result" primary="true" content-types="xml html" sequence="false"/>
  <option name="new-name" as="xs:QName" required="true"/>
  <option name="match" as="xs:string" required="false" select="'/*'"/>
</p:declare-step>

The p:rename step renames elements, attributes, or processing-instruction nodes, specified by an XSLT selection pattern, in the document appearing on its source port.

Ports:

Options:

Description

Using p:rename, it becomes easy to rename elements, attributes, or processing-instructions in your document. The step takes the XSLT match pattern in the match option and holds this against the document appearing on its source port. Any matching nodes are renamed to the name provided in the new-name option. Matched nodes must be elements, attributes, or processing-instructions (any other match results in error XC0023).

Examples

<things>
   <thing name="screw" id="A123"/>
   <thing name="bolt" id="A789"/>
   <?convert debug="true"?>
</things>

<p:declare-step xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc" version="3.0">

  <p:input port="source"/>
  <p:output port="result"/>

  <p:rename match="/*/thing" new-name="Thing"/>
  <p:rename match="@name" new-name="thing-name"/>
  <p:rename match="processing-instruction(convert)" new-name="debug-processing"/>

</p:declare-step>

<things>
   <Thing thing-name="screw" id="A123"/>
   <Thing thing-name="bolt" id="A789"/>
   <?debug-processing debug="true"?>
</things>

<things>
   <thing name="screw" id="A123" thing-name="something else"/>
</things>

<p:declare-step xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc" version="3.0">

  <p:input port="source"/>
  <p:output port="result"/>

  <p:rename match="@name" new-name="thing-name"/>

</p:declare-step>

<things>
   <thing thing-name="screw" id="A123"/>
</things>

Additional details

• p:rename preserves all document-properties of the document(s) appearing on its source port.

• If an attribute is renamed to an attribute that already exists on this element, this existing attribute is deleted. See the Renaming to an existing attribute example.

• If an xml:base attribute is renamed to something else, the underlying base URI of the element is not changed.

  If an attribute is renamed to xml:base, the base URI of the underlying element is changed to the value of this attribute.

Errors raised

Reference information

This description of the p:rename step is for XProc version: 3.0. This is a required step (an XProc 3.0 processor must support this).

The formal specification for the p:rename step can be found here.

The p:rename step is part of categories:

• Standard XProc steps

• Basic XML manipulation

The p:rename step is also present in version: 3.1.