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dave livingston

Subject: dynamic element name
Author: dave livingston
Date: 28 Dec 2006 11:34 AM

I've been beating on this for awhile and cannot seem to make any headway. It cannot be as hard as I am making it.

I have an element whose text value is a class name in my input document.
I need to create an element (with some attributes) in the output document that has that class name. It sure seems pretty simple, but I cannot get anything to work.

I thought I could use AVT:
<xsl:element name = "{/root/response/res-body/class}" >
//attribute stuff//
</xsl:element>

When I test the stylesheet I get nothing with this example. If I put in a simple name (foo) then I get the element foo with all of the attributes.

Can someone please give me an idea what to check???

thanks

dave

Minollo I.

Subject: dynamic element name
Author: Minollo I.
Date: 28 Dec 2006 01:13 PM

If you get nothing I can only imagine that the XPath expression you are specifying for the name of the element is incorrect. If you post the XML document (or a sample of it) on which you are working, we may be able to help more.

dave livingston

Subject: dynamic element name
Author: dave livingston
Date: 28 Dec 2006 02:29 PM

Here is an example source and the stylesheet...

I used the Xpath editor in Stylus Studio and it gave me the same path that I am using..it is almost like Stylus Studio does not support what I am trying to do...

arggh

error.xml
xml source

error.xsl
stylesheet

dave livingston

Subject: dynamic element name
Author: dave livingston
Date: 28 Dec 2006 02:46 PM

Interesting...if i change the processor from the internal to Saxon it will provide the output that I am looking for.

It would appear to be a bug within SS.

Minollo I.

Subject: dynamic element name
Author: Minollo I.
Date: 28 Dec 2006 03:21 PM

The problem is that you have whitespaces in the content of the element error-command; Saxon 8.7 will return this error:

Error: at xsl:element on line 22 of file:///c:/error.xsl:
XTDE0820: Invalid element name. Invalid QName { control }

Saxon 6.5.5 will return a similar error.

To fix the problem, just change your code into:
<xsl:element name="{normalize-space(/root/errorresponse/error-body/error-command)}">

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