RE: Extracting an attribute value only

<xsl:template match="content">
  <page name="{@page}">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </page>
</xsl:template>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastian Tennant [mailto:sebyte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 16 January 2006 13:12
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Extracting an attribute value only
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have an XML doc that begins:
> 
>   <?xml version="1.0">
>   <?xml-stylesheet href="ss.xsl" type="text/xsl" ?>
>   <content page="welcome">
>   [...]
>   </content>
> 
> I'd like to create a new XML doc using XSLT that takes the value of
> the page attribute and assigns it to a new attribute in the document
> element of the result tree, like this:
> 
>   <?xml-version="1.0">
>   <page name="welcome">
>   [...]
>   </page>
> 
> I'm going round in circles!
> 
> TIA
> 
> sdt