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Xslt stylesheet to get JSON output from XML using XSLT 3.0 version

RajatKumar
August 9, 2023
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I have a Soap XML which contains multiple records. I am working on fetching the data of tags ReportId, PolicyNumber etc. Now this records also has multiple "records" tag within "sf:Case_Responses_GCC_r" tag. I need to create an XSLT file which could help me in transforming this SOAP XML into JSON data. I have done this using XSLT 1.0 but as I am using saxon-js which supports XSLT 3.0 processor.

My XML Data

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
  xmlns="urn:enter.soap.force.com"
  xmlns:sf="urn:sobject.enter.soap.force.com"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <soapenv:Body>
    <queryMoreResponse>
      <result>
        <done>false</done>
        <records xsi:type="sf:Case">
          <sf:ReportId>6896SDRGrt868</sf:ReportId>
          <sf:PolicyNumber>445353566</sf:PolicyNumber>
           <sf:Case_Responses_GCC__r>
             <records xsi:type="sf:Response_GCC__c">
               <sf:Id xsi:nil="true"/>
               <sf:Question_GCC__c>Available to question?</sf:Question_GCC__c>
               <sf:Response_GCC__c>Yes</sf:Response_GCC__c>
             </records>
             <records xsi:type="sf:Response_GCC__c">
              <sf:Id xsi:nil="true"/>
              <sf:Question_GCC__c>Relationship</sf:Question_GCC__c>
              <sf:Response_GCC__c>Self</sf:Response_GCC__c>
             </records>
           </sf:Case_Responses_GCC__r>
        </records>
        <records xsi:type="sf:Case">
          <sf:ReportId>5003L005UCcfVVS</sf:ReportId>
          <sf:PolicyNumber>87768978</sf:PolicyNumber>
           <sf:Case_Responses_GCC__r>
             <records xsi:type="sf:Response_GCC__c">
               <sf:Id xsi:nil="true"/>
               <sf:Question_GCC__c>Available to question?</sf:Question_GCC__c>
               <sf:Response_GCC__c>No</sf:Response_GCC__c>
             </records>
             <records xsi:type="sf:Response_GCC__c">
              <sf:Id xsi:nil="true"/>
              <sf:Question_GCC__c>Relationship</sf:Question_GCC__c>
              <sf:Response_GCC__c>Father</sf:Response_GCC__c>
             </records>
           </sf:Case_Responses_GCC__r>
        </records>
      </result>
    </queryMoreResponse>
  </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

I have tried using this XSLT but its throwing error with used functions

XSLT I have tried

<xsl:stylesheet version="3.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:sf="urn:sobject.enter.soap.force.com"
xpath-default-namespace="urn:enter.soap.force.com"
xmlns:json="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/" 
expand-text="yes"
exclude-result-prefixes="#all">

    <xsl:output method="json" version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes"/>

    <xsl:template match="/soapenv:Envelope">
        <xsl:variable name="jsonObject">
            <lic lang="en">
                <xsl:apply-templates select="soapenv:Body/queryMoreResponse/result/records"/>
            </lic>
        </xsl:variable>
        <xsl:value-of select="json:serialize($jsonObject, map { 'method': 'json', 'indent': true() })"/>
    </xsl:template>
    
    <xsl:template match="sf:records">
        <xsl:map>
            <xsl:map-entry key="reportversion" select="1"/>
            <xsl:map-entry key="reportid" select="sf:ReportId"/>
            <xsl:map-entry key="PolicyNumber" select="sf:PolicyNumber"/>
            <xsl:map-entry key="primarysourcecountry" select="'IN'"/>
            <xsl:map-entry key="client">
                <xsl:map>
                    <xsl:map-entry key="summary">
                        <xsl:variable name="responses">
                            <xsl:apply-templates select="sf:Case_Responses_GCC__r/records"/>
                        </xsl:variable>
                        <xsl:sequence select="json:to-array($responses)"/>
                    </xsl:map-entry>
                </xsl:map>
            </xsl:map-entry>
        </xsl:map>
    </xsl:template>
    
    <xsl:template match="sf:records">
        <xsl:map>
            <xsl:map-entry key="sf:Question_GCC__c" select="sf:Question_GCC__c"/>
            <xsl:map-entry key="sf:Response_GCC__c" select="sf:Response_GCC__c"/>
        </xsl:map>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Expected JSON Output

{
    "lic":[
        {
            "reportversion":"1",
            "reportid":"5003L000005UCcfQAG",
            "PolicyNumber": "004176451",
            "primarysourcecountry": "IN",
            "client":{
                "summary": {
                    "Available to question?": "No",
                    "Relationship": "Father"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "reportversion":"1",
            "reportid":"5003L000005UCcfQAG",
            "PolicyNumber": "004176451",
            "primarysourcecountry": "IN",
            "client":{
                "summary": {
                    "Available to question?": "No",
                    "Relationship": "Father"
                }
            }
        }       
    ]
}

Answers

The following should get you closer:

<xsl:stylesheet version="3.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:sf="urn:sobject.enter.soap.force.com"
xpath-default-namespace="urn:enter.soap.force.com"
xmlns:mf="http://example.com/mf"
exclude-result-prefixes="#all">
  
  <xsl:function name="mf:process-records" as="item()*">
    <xsl:param name="elements" as="element()*"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="$elements"/>
  </xsl:function>

    <xsl:output method="json" indent="yes"/>

    <xsl:template match="/soapenv:Envelope">
      <xsl:map>
        <xsl:map-entry key="'lic'" select="array { mf:process-records(soapenv:Body/queryMoreResponse/result/records) }"/>
      </xsl:map>
    </xsl:template>
    
    <xsl:template match="records">
        <xsl:map>
            <xsl:map-entry key="'reportversion'" select="1"/>
            <xsl:map-entry key="'reportid'" select="string(sf:ReportId)"/>
            <xsl:map-entry key="'PolicyNumber'" select="string(sf:PolicyNumber)"/>
            <xsl:map-entry key="'primarysourcecountry'" select="'IN'"/>
            <xsl:map-entry key="'client'">
                <xsl:map>
                    <xsl:map-entry key="'summary'">
                      <xsl:map>
                        <xsl:apply-templates select="sf:Case_Responses_GCC__r/records"/>
                      </xsl:map>
                    </xsl:map-entry>
                </xsl:map>
            </xsl:map-entry>
        </xsl:map>
    </xsl:template>
    
    <xsl:template match="sf:Case_Responses_GCC__r/records">
      <xsl:map-entry key="sf:Question_GCC__c" select="string(sf:Response_GCC__c)"/>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

There are various ways to create XDM/XPath/XSLT maps to be serialized as JSON, the suggestion above tries to follow your intention to use xsl:map and xsl:map-entry, using just XPath 3.1 expression for XDM maps and arrays might be a bit more compact:

<xsl:stylesheet version="3.0" 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
  xmlns:sf="urn:sobject.enter.soap.force.com"
  xpath-default-namespace="urn:enter.soap.force.com"
  xmlns:map="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/map"
  exclude-result-prefixes="#all">
  
  <xsl:output method="json" indent="yes"/>

  <xsl:template match="/soapenv:Envelope">
    <xsl:sequence
      select="map { 'lic' : array {
                 soapenv:Body/queryMoreResponse/result/records ! map {
                   'reportversion' : 1,
                   'reportid' : string(sf:ReportId),
                   'PolicyNumber' : string(sf:PolicyNumber),
                   'primarysourcecountry' : 'IN',
                   'client' : map {
                     'summary' : map:merge(
                       sf:Case_Responses_GCC__r/records ! map:entry(sf:Question_GCC__c, string(sf:Response_GCC__c))
                     )
                   }
                 }
              }}"/>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

you can also use camaro for this

const { transform } = require('camaro')
const fs = require('fs')

async function main() {
    const input = fs.readFileSync('input.xml', 'utf-8')
    const template = {
        lic: ['//result/records', {
            reportID: 'sf:ReportId',
            policyNumber: 'sf:PolicyNumber',
            client: {
                summary: {
                    availableToQuestion: 'sf:Case_Responses_GCC__r/records/sf:Question_GCC__c[text() = "Available to question?"]/../sf:Response_GCC__c',
                    relationship: 'sf:Case_Responses_GCC__r/records/sf:Question_GCC__c[text() = "Relationship"]/../sf:Response_GCC__c'
                }
            }
        }]
    }
    const result = await transform(input, template)

    console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 2))
}

main()

output

{
  "lic": [
    {
      "reportID": "6896SDRGrt868",
      "policyNumber": "445353566",
      "client": {
        "summary": {
          "availableToQuestion": "Yes",
          "relationship": "Self"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "reportID": "5003L005UCcfVVS",
      "policyNumber": "87768978",
      "client": {
        "summary": {
          "availableToQuestion": "No",
          "relationship": "Father"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

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