You seem to be under the impression that attribute nodes own text nodes.
They don't.
Michael Kay
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From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
Robert P. J. Day
Sent: 04 September 2003 16:15
To: XSL List
Subject: [xsl] getting the text nodes from a set of attribute nodes
i have the following XML:
<a>
<b attr='whatever' ... </b>
<b attr='more' ... </b>
<b attr='yadda yadda' ... </b>
</a>
and i'd like to use another template to process the (string)
values of the (set of) "attr" attributes.
if i'm already processing the <a> element, i can certainly
create a node-set of the appropriate attribute nodes with:
<xsl:variable name="set" select="b/@attr"/>
that will give me a node-set of attribute nodes and, when i
pass these to another template, that template will be
responsible for taking the string value of each attribute
node to do further
processing.
on the other hand, would it be any faster or more elegant
to use an expression to create a node-set of text nodes
corresponding to those attribute values right off the bat so
that all i'm passing is a set of text nodes?
that is, is there an expression that would, in that above
xsl:variable template, produce the node set of text nodes i'm
after in a single select? and do people have strong opinions
either way in terms of aesthetics?
rday
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