Create variable tag from XML tag value

Is it possible to change given XML structure

<Cars>
    <Car>Honda</Car>
    <Car>Fer开发者_StackOverflow中文版rari</Car>
</Cars>

with XLST to

<Cars>
    <Honda></Honda>
    <Ferrari></Ferrari>
</Cars>

I know XSLT a little, but I'm not sure how to create variable tags.

Thanks everybody. I appreciate all three answers and have up voted them.

You could use <xsl:element> to create elements by a given name. E.g. in your case it will be something like:

<xsl:template match="Car">
    <xsl:element name="{text()}"></xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

UPD: This is a fragment. Usually it is a good approach for such transformations which intended just to modify a few nodes in the tree. You define the copy-template:

<xsl:template match="@* | node()">
    <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
    </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

which just copies the whole xml tree as is and then add some customised templates for particular elements, attributes, etc, e.g. as for the "Car" above.

You're looking for xsl:element, with a name computed at run-time using curly braces like so:

<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:for-each select="Cars/Car">
        <xsl:element name="{.}"/>
    </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

Try this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
      xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:apply-templates />
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="Cars">
        <Cars>
            <xsl:for-each select="Car">
                <xsl:element name="{.}"/>
            </xsl:for-each>
        </Cars>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>