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Re: Problems passing attributes

Subject: Re: Problems passing attributes
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:14:44 -0400
attribut problems
Doug,

Paul's solution is nice because if your input doesn't have a border attribute to copy, it avoids getting border="" in your output (which you might get with plain border="{@border}" in your stylesheet).

It can be further refined as follows:

<xsl:template match="table">
    <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
        <xsl:copy-of select="@border"/>
        <!-- do the table thing -->
    </table>
</xsl:template>

which can be further generalized to catch all three attributes:

<xsl:template match="table">
    <table>
        <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
        <!-- do the table thing -->
    </table>
</xsl:template>

-- if you want to copy them all from the input, not set them yourself.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 12:17 PM 9/28/01, Paul wrote:
If you *always* want to emit a border attribute, and you *always* want it to
be a numeric value (not null), here's an easy way:

<xsl:template match="table">
    <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
        <xsl:if test="@border != ''"><!-- if attribute exists and is
non-null -->
            <xsl:attribute name="border">
                <xsl:value-of select="@border"/><!-- use it's value -->
            </xsl:attribute>
        </xsl:if>
        <!-- do the table thing -->
    </table>
</xsl:template>

The last attribute specified in the literal result element takes precedence
if the same attribute name is used more than once.

If you only want to emit a border attribute when a non-null one is specified
on input, just leave the 'border="0"' out of the literal result element
begin tag.

If you don't care about emitting null border attributes, this is the most
compact:
    <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="{@border}">
        <!-- do the table thing -->
    </table>


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