RE: Exclude Attributes from select?

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Subject: RE: Exclude Attributes from select?
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:12:02 +0800

At 00/10/13 13:29 +0200, Linda van den Brink wrote:

> If i use <xsl:copy-of select="@*">, is there a possibility,
> to exclude some attributes?
You could use something like

xsl:copy-of select="@*[not(self::attrib1)]"

Linda

I very much apologize if this sounds pedantic, but the incorrect answer to this question was given twice by different people, so I will respond to each with the same answer in case people hunt down one thread but not the other.

The self:: axis cannot be used as shown above, because the principal node type along the self:: axis is element and when only a name is given in the node test only nodes of the principal type are returned. One might ask "since I'm on the attribute axis, why isn't the attribute the principal node type in the predicate" ... the answer is because XSLT states that if an axis is allowed to have elements along it, as does the self:: axis, then the element is the principal node type. Therefore, since there are no elements on the attribute axis, nothing is ever returned from the self:: axis in the above expression.

The only way I can see to exclude particular attributes is with the name() function.

An illustration is below.

I hope this helps, and again, sorry for duplication but I understand one's intuition to try the above and I think it is important to cover the bases.

...................... Ken

p.s. for those of you who have the Eighth Edition of our book, the summary is on page 70.

T:\ftemp>type test.xsl
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns:dummy="dummy"
                exclude-result-prefixes="dummy"
                version="1.0">

<xsl:output method="text"/>

<dummy:data>
  <hello att1="att1-val" att2="att2-val" att3="att3-val"/>
</dummy:data>

<xsl:template match="/">                         <!--root rule-->
  <xsl:for-each select="document('')//hello">
    <xsl:text>Using self::</xsl:text>
    <xsl:for-each select="@*[not(self::att2)]" xml:space="preserve">
      <xsl:value-of select="name(.)"/>-<xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </xsl:for-each>
    <xsl:text>&#xa;Using self::</xsl:text>
    <xsl:for-each select="@*[name(.)!='att2']" xml:space="preserve">
      <xsl:value-of select="name(.)"/>-<xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

T:\ftemp>xt test.xsl test.xsl
Using self::
      att1-att1-val

att2-att2-val

att3-att3-val

Using self::
      att1-att1-val

att3-att3-val

T:\ftemp>


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Exclude Attributes from select?
- Rainer . Jung - Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:05:03 +0200
  - David Delgranche - Fri, 13 Oct 2000 14:48:41 +0200
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