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Create simple xlink


File: Data.xml
<html>
  <body>
    <p>
      The poem's
      <a href="jmilton.html">author</a>
      was English.
    </p>
  </body>
</html>

File: Transform.xslt

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
  exclude-result-prefixes="xlink" version="1.0">
  <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />

  <xsl:template match="a">
    <author xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="{@href}">
      <xsl:apply-templates />
    </author>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="p">
    <para>
      <xsl:apply-templates />
    </para>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:


  
    <para>
      The poem's
      <author xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="jmilton.html">author</author>
      was English.
    </para>

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