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How to get processing-instruction's pseudo-attribute

• From: Long JingJun <longjingjun@y...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 14:14:27 +0800 (CST)

Hi all,

I have the following PI in the XML document:

<?page page_number='1' width='2000'?>

I want to retrieve the PI's pseudo-attribute in XSLT stylesheet. I tried:

<xsl:template match="processing-instruction('page)">
    <xsl:value-of select="@page_number">
</xsl:template>

This does NOT work. Because attributes are not really attributes in PI.

I tried the following method:
<xsl:template match="processing-instruction('page_start')">
        <xsl:variable name="page_number" select='substring-before(substring-after(., "page_number=&apos;"), "&apos;")'/>
</xsl:template>

Yes, this works. But this seems not the best way.

So, my question is:
Is there a standard way in XML/XSLT to retrieve PI's attribute? If not,  is there any plan to handle this in XML/XSLT standard?


Thanks

Long




 
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