Re: "value-of select" attributes with a namespace

<xsl:value-of select="@r:status"/> should do.
But I cannot understand why you are using namespace for attributes. As long as your attribute
refers only to a particular element (probably belonging to a particular namespace), it is good
practice not to assign a namespace to that attribute (leave namespace URI null), which is
something like the "virtual namespace" of the attribute is the element (with its namespace URI).
The only case in which you assing namespace URI to an attribute is when that attribute can be
attached to any element, like xml:space, xml:lang, xml:base etc.


--- Derek Basch <dbasch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Can anyone tell me why I can't value-of select attributes with a namespace? I
> dont get the value of the 'status' attribute returned but I can see that the
> transaction element is matched using an XSLT Debugger. Any Ideas? I am using
> Firefox v1.
> 
> XML
> ------------------------------------------------------
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
> <!DOCTYPE receipt SYSTEM "http://172.20.0.70:81/evaluator/receipt.dtd">
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"
> href="http://172.20.0.70:81/evaluator/receipt.xsl"?>
> <r:receipt xmlns:r='http://172.20.0.70:81/receipt/'
> r:received='2004-12-07T14:19:33.438918-08:00'>
>   <r:transaction r:status='http://172.20.0.70:81/smm/set1/status'
> r:uri='http://172.20.0.70:81/smm/set1'/>
> </r:receipt>
> 
> XSL
> -------------------------------------------------------
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>  xmlns:r="http://172.20.0.70:81/receipt/">
> 
> <xsl:output method="text"/>
>  
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <xsl:apply-templates select="r:receipt/r:transaction"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="/r:receipt/r:transaction">
> <xsl:value-of select="@status"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
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Marian
http://www.utdallas.edu/~mgo031000/


		
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