Extracting textual content of XML documents

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For specific requirements of the desired algorithm, I should prepare the input in a table-like format in which it is not possible to have cells with more than one data item. Simply, for doc as follows (this is a fragment of complete doc):

HTML

<Articles>
<article>
<author>Frank Manola</author>
<title>title1</title>
<journal>GTE</journal>
<month>December</month>
<year>1991</year>
</article>

<article>
<author>Frank Manola</author>
<author>Sandra Heiler</author>
<title>title2</title>
<journal>ASF</journal>
<month>August</month>
<year>1993</year>
</article>
</Articles>

the desired output is such as follows:

Frank Manola, title1, GTE, December, 1991

Frank Manola, title2, ASF, August, 1993

Sandra Heiler, title2, ASF, August, 1993

In fact, for those records that have more than one authors (author tag) (there are instances with 4 or more ones), each one should be retrieved in a separate line.

How to do that using XSLT?

Update: This is a solution that is close to what I want:

HTML

<xsl:transform version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="text" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="/*">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*">(<xsl:apply-templates select=".//text()"/>)<xsl:if test="position() != last()">, </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text()">
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    <xsl:if test="position() != last()">, </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:transform>

Posted 2-Feb-15 1:58am

Eilia98

Updated 2-Feb-15 2:11am

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_Asif_ 2-Feb-15 8:03am

What have you tried so far?

Eilia98 2-Feb-15 8:09am

I could find a solution that is not completely sufficient for what I want to do?
It's added as update to the question.

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-02T03:51:00

Something like this should work:

XML

<xsl:transform version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output method="text" indent="yes"/>
    <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

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

    <xsl:template match="article">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="author"/>
        <xsl:if test="position() != last()">, </xsl:if>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="author">(<xsl:apply-templates select="./text()"/>, <xsl:apply-templates select="../title/text()"/>, <xsl:apply-templates select="../journal/text()"/>, <xsl:apply-templates select="../month/text()"/>, <xsl:apply-templates select="../year/text()"/>)<xsl:if test="position() != last()">, </xsl:if></xsl:template>
</xsl:transform>