Attribute value templates aren't substituted in extens

>Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:57:14 +0100 (CET)
>From: Massimo Santini - mailing list address <mm14ss@xxxxxxxx>
>Sender: <santini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Attribute value templates aren't substituted in extension elements
> by xalan-j
>
>I'm using the following style sheet (see the bottom of the mail) with
>Xalan (version 2.2.0 java, from XML Apache) and from the docs I've read
>(mainly http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#attribute-value-templates, but also the
>FAQs and HOWTOs reported on xml.apache.org site) I was expecting a result
>like
>
>	var = VALUE
>	get returns VALUE
>	<other:element value="VALUE"/>
>
>but instead I got
>
>	var = VALUE
>	get returns {$var}
>	<other:element value="VALUE"/>
>
>as if "{$var}" is not substituted in extension elements. What am I missing
>here? Any help will be appreciated...
>
>	Massimo Santini
>
><?xml version="1.0"?>
>
><xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>                xmlns:lxslt="http://xml.apache.org/xslt"
>                xmlns:ext="ext"
>                extension-element-prefixes="ext"
>                version="1.0">
>
><lxslt:component prefix="ext" elements="set" functions="get">
>
>	<lxslt:script lang="javascript">
>
>		var t = "";
>
>		function set( xp, e )
>		{
>			t = e.getAttribute( "value" );
>			return null;
>		}
>
>		function get()
>		{
>			return t;
>		}
>		</lxslt:script>
>
></lxslt:component>
>
><xsl:variable name="var" select="'VALUE'"/>
>
><xsl:template match="/">
>
>	var = <xsl:value-of select="$var"/>
>
>	<ext:set value="{$var}"/>
>	get returns <xsl:copy-of select="ext:get()"/>
>
>	<other:element value="{$var}"/>
>
></xsl:template>
>
></xsl:stylesheet>


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