Re: Use of xsl:apply-templates exception with an eleme

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Subject: Re: Use of xsl:apply-templates exception with an element
From: ac <ac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:45:20 -0400

Hi Michael,

As "If you are confident that thenamespace URI makes no difference, then you can test using the predicate [local-name()!=$name]", then, isn't <xsl:copy-of select="*@[name() = ($name1, $name2, $name3, $name4)]"/> with stable prefixes, better than what Ken was proposing which might look like this: <xsl:copy-of select="*@[(local-name()=$name1 and namespace-uri()=$ns1) or (local-name()=$name2 and namespace-uri()=$ns2) or (local-name()=$name3 and namespace-uri()=$ns3) or (local-name()=$name4 and namespace-uri()=$ns4)]"/> , where I also have to declare variables $ns1, $ns2, $ns3, $ns4, and where I also need to know, maintain, and debug the "hard-wired" fact that local-name $name1 is used with uri $ns1, and local-name $name2 is used with with uri $ns2, and local-name $name3 is used with uri $ns3, and local-name $name4 is used with uri $ns4, and ...

Thanks,
ac

I understand local-name and namespace uris, but isn't strange that you can use <xsl:copy-of select="*[@self::attribution]"/> but not <variable name="name" select=" 'attribution' "/> ... <xsl:copy-of select="*[@self::{$name}]"/> for example.
Or similarily,
<xsl:copy-of select="*[@self::{@name}]"/>
It's only strange if you've somehow got it into your head that XSLT/XPath is
a macro language in which variables are inserted into expressions by textual
substitution before the expression is parsed and executed. Since that's a
completely erroneous view of the processing model, it's not surprising that
it leads you to false expectations.
Regards,

Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ http://twitter.com/michaelhkay

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