Re: Screening values from two attribute-sets

I'm not sure why this is a faq but it is (come up several times this
week already:-)
				<xsl:variable
name="att-name"><xsl:value-of select="name(.)"/></xsl:variable>

Dont use xsl:variable with content rather than a selct expression unless
you really intend to do this. selct=name() would have made teh variable
a string with the name, but as you have it it's a result tree fragment
with a root node containing a text node with string value the name.

In this case it's just a lot to type and slower to execute but

				<xsl:variable
name="path-name"><xsl:text>@</xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="name(.)"/></xsl:variable>

even if you made that a string rather than a result tree fragment it is
never going to work

select="$path-name"

will evaluate to the result tree fragment (or string) '@xxxx' not the
result of executing teh Xpath @xxx.
This is just the same as C or java or fortran or most other languages
if you have a string "x+2" then getting from there to executing that
string as a fragment of the language is non trivial and requires writing
a parser to parse the string.

You could go select="*@[name()=$att-name()] but it seems unlikely that
you really want to for-each over all the attributes then have to special
case test for each in turn with an xsl:when.

I think that you just want to
a)
start you element
b)
execute the code that adds all the attributes if no attributes are on
your source element
c)
xsl:apply-templates mode="zzz" select="@*"


then you need templates like
<xsl:template mode="zzz" match="@margin-right">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

David


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