Re: Automatically copying an element's attributes and

] <ns0:para>
] 	<xsl:for-each select="@*">
]       	<xsl:attribute name="name()">
] 			<xsl:value-of select="."/>
] 		</xsl:attribute>
]     </xsl:for-each>
] 

the name attribute  of xsl:attribute takes an AVT not an XPath
expression so as above it is trying to generate an attribute callned
name() which isn't allowed by XML rules, hence the error you showed.
To get the name() function to be evaluated surround with {}
as in name="{name()}" however thi sis much more than you need

I would like to pass through attributes and their
] values without having to a) test to see if the
] attribute has a value specified, and b) explicitly
] output the value.

could be paraphrased as "I want to copy all the attributes"
so...

<ns0:para>
  <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
...

David

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