Re: The identity transform and attributes

> ...and we should perhaps re-learn the identity transform for 2.0 as:
>
>
> <xsl:template match="element()">
>   <xsl:copy>
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="@*,node()"/>
>   </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> <xsl:template match="attribute()|text()|comment()|processing-instruction()">
>   <xsl:copy/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> ...which might make attribute processing more intuitive for future xslt'ers.
>


Of course, if someone needs to process namespace nodes, the code above
would not help. In this case we need use:

   <xsl:element>
    <!-- then <xsl:copy-of> only selected namespace-nodes -->
    <!-- then (probably) placing other namespace nodes -->
    <!-- then do the rest of the processing -->
  </xsl:element>

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On Jan 21, 2008 6:01 AM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 21/01/2008, Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > My intuition is the same as yours ;) I understand the reasoning behind
> > the decisions, but I find myself doing a lot of extra work when I am
> > dealing with attributes.
>
> That describes it nicely.  Although I've been working with this for
> years now, I still rarely get it right the first time around when
> comes to attributes.
>
> So for a bit of a summary - 2.0 makes things much simpler (as usual ):
>
> To process all attributes except one:
>
> @* except @foo
>
> To check if the current attribute is a particular one:
>
> test="self::attribute(foo)"
>
> ...and we should perhaps re-learn the identity transform for 2.0 as:
>
>
> <xsl:template match="element()">
>   <xsl:copy>
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="@*,node()"/>
>   </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> <xsl:template match="attribute()|text()|comment()|processing-instruction()">
>   <xsl:copy/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> ...which might make attribute processing more intuitive for future xslt'ers.
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew Welch
> http://andrewjwelch.com
> Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/