RE: Illegal attribute name

Hi,

> I use the template .
>   <xsl:template match="/test/T">
>     <xsl:element name="{@fldname}">
>       <xsl:apply-templates />
>            <xsl:value-of select="@reserve2"/>
>            </xsl:element>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
> It gives illegal attribute name when I am using a number as 
> the 'fldname' value.
> If its an alphabet it works fine.what is the work around?

An element name must be a QName--see
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Creating-Elements-with-xsl:element>. If
you really want to generate looks-like-XML-but-isn't output, you could
generate the elements e.g. with name="x-{@fldname}" and then write your own
serializer to remove the "x-". 

Cheers, 

Santtu

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