RE: Accessing a node name from within <xsl:attribute>

Mike Kay's book is a great beginner's guide and reference.
Look for Wrox Press's "XSLT Programmer's Reference".  We
have purchased piles of this book at Microsoft and everyone
seems to like it.

The first thing to establish, though, is that Mike Kay
is definitely not the person to ask XSL questions regarding
Microsoft.  I think he has a filter set up that detects
keywords like "IE5" or "Microsoft" and automatically
spits out some form of "Microsoft [expletive deleted]" without regard
to the actual question asked.

He was perfectly capable of answering your question, and
would have answered it had you pretended to be using Saxon.
He is also perfectly aware that IE5 shipped before the
XSLT spec was finished and thus implements an older version
of the spec.  He is also aware that there have been many
updates to XSLT support for IE5 available free for download
at http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml.  With the updated parser
you can also download the newer SDK, which includes online
references for XSLT/XPath and code samples.

Joshua Allen
Microsoft eBusiness West Region
"No challenge can withstand the assault of sustained thinking" - Voltaire


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kay Michael [mailto:Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 10:18 AM
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: Accessing a node name from within <xsl:attribute>
> 
> 
> > I am new to XSL. I am looking into transforming XML into HTML 
> > using XSL for displaying in Internet Explorer 5.
> > Can anyone help with this question please and/or point me in 
> > the direction of some good beginners guides to XSL?
> > 
> First thing is to establish that you understand the 
> difference between the
> W3C XSLT standard and Microsoft's 1998 dialect of XSL as 
> implemented in IE5.
> Most of the people on this list are primarily interested in 
> the former. If
> you want to (or are forced to) use the Microsoft dialect, be 
> aware that it's
> very different and far less powerful a language.
> 
> Mike Kay
> 
> 
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