Re: looping the attributes

Thanx Trevor.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Trevor Nash" <tcn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 10:58 AM
Subject: Re:  looping the attributes


> Charles Ohana wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >I'm trying to display the whole xml data in a table in a generic way.
> >I don't know the name of the fields, all I know is the name of the node.
> >
> >Here is an example
> ><root>
> >  <line c1="1" c2="2" />
> >  <line x1="A" x2="B" />
> ></root>
> >
> >I'm looking to produce the following output
> ><tr>
> >  <td> 1 </td>
> >  <td> 2 </td>
> ></tr>
> ><tr>
> >  <td> A </td>
> >  <td> B </td>
> ></tr>
> >
> >
> >here is my xsl code below, does anyone knows what am I missing ?
> >...
> ><xsl:for-each select="line">
> >  <tr>
> >    <xsl:for-each select="@*">
> >      <td> <xsl:value-of select="@name()"/> </td>
> This is asking for the name of an attribute of the current node, which
> is itself an attribute : it will return nothing.
> 
> If you want the value of the attribute (e.g. '1') then say
>   <td> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </td>
> ( . (dot) means the current node)
> 
> If you want the name of the attribute (e.g. 'c1') then say
>   <td> <xsl:value-of select="name()"./> </td>
> (the name of the current node)
> 
> Regards,
> Trevor Nash
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