RE: match="*:style"

This is a previously unreported bug in Saxon 9.1. I have logged it at

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2796490&group_id=29872&atid
=397617

and a patch is being tested.

Regards,

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Merico Raffaele [mailto:raffaele.merico@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 20 May 2009 14:35
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  match="*:style"
> 
> Dear Community
> 
> I process HTML/XHTML files passed as input to my XSLT 
> stylesheet. I'm working with SaxonB 9.1.0.2.
> In order to catch the <style/> tag in the HTML/XHTML input 
> file I defined the following match-rule. 
> 
> <xsl:template match="*:style[empty(./*) and 
> normalize-space(./text()) eq '']">
>   <xsl:element name="{node-name(current())}"
> namespace="{namespace-uri(current())}">
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
>       <xslo:value-of select="' '"/>
>   </xsl:element>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> Now I am surprised that above match applies also to 
> style-attributes (i.e.
> style="border: 1px solid red;").
> I can imagine that this is caused by the star in the match.
> I used the star to mask the namespace-prefix in order match 
> style-tags in the null and in the XHTML namespace (without prefix). 
> 
> Can anybody please explain me why this happens? 
> 
> Many thanks in advance
> Raffaele Merico