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

Indeed we must have got tangled in XSLT 1.0 circumlocution,
although also, most examples were using variables rather than attributes.

Thank you,
ac

ac,

At 04:45 PM 9/25/2009, you wrote:

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 ...

Hm. "*@[name() = ($name1, $name2, $name3, $name4)]" uses XPath 2.0, so why not use the 'except' operator?

select="@* except (@name1|@name2|@name3|@name4)"

which is namespace-safe?

(Didn't someone already suggest that?)

Ken's circumlocution reflects what you have to do in XSLT 1.0 to be namespace-safe.

Cheers,
Wendell

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