RE: how to assign part of an attributes value to anoth

> From: Tony Zanella [mailto:tony.zanella@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 7:52 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  how to assign part of an attributes value to another
> attribute within the same element?
>
> The output I get is:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root>
>     <ptr target="abc.07.7.1fm" n="abc.07.7.1fm"/>
>     <ptr target="abc.07.7.6tm" n="abc.07.7.6tm"/>
> </root>
>
> This is not quite what I want, which is:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root>
>     <ptr target="abc.07.7.1fm" n="1"/>
>     <ptr target="abc.07.7.6tm" n="6"/>
> </root>

Since you are using XSL 2.0 then change your template to:

<xsl:template match="ptr[@target|@n]">
  <xsl:element name="ptr">
    <xsl:attribute name="target" select="@target"/>
    <xsl:attribute name="n"
select="replace(@target,'^(.+\.)(\d+)([ft]m)$',$2)"/>
  </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>


Andy.