Hi Ann Marie,
The problem is that your template rule does not copy the <user> element. It
only tries to add an attribute. I suspect that the XSLT processor is falling
back from an error. It's an error to try to add an attribute to an element
after any child nodes have been added. (In this case, the whitespace-only
text node before each <user> element has been added.) If you first stripped
the whitespace from the source tree, you'd find that the "name" attribute
would get added to the <security-role-mapping> element instead.
You could fix your template rule by wrapping <xsl:copy> around
<xsl:attribute>. But a better, more flexible approach would be to match the
attribute node itself rather than the <user> element:
<xsl:template match="user/@name">
<xsl:attribute name="{(_at_)name}">foo</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>
I'm of course assuming that you have the identity transformation template
rule in your stylesheet which looks like this:
<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
Hope this helps,
Evan
-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Marie Rubin [mailto:Annmarie(_dot_)Rubin(_at_)Sun(_dot_)COM]
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 3:42 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] problem matching attribute
Hello List,
If I have xml such as the this:
<namespace-access>
<read-access>
<namespace-resource root="">
<security-role-mapping
name="consoleadmins" >
<user name="iasadmin"/>
<user name="guestadmin"/>
<group name="admins" />
<group name= "special" />
</security-role-mapping>
</namespace-resource>
</read-access>
<write-access>
<namespace-resource root="">
<security-role-mapping>
<group
name="jazn.com/administrators"/>
</security-role-mapping>
</namespace-resource>
</write-access>
</namespace-access>
I want to update 'name="guestadmin"' to 'name="foo"'
undre the "consoleadmins" role?
I tried this:
<xsl:template
match="read-access/namespace-resource/security-role-mapping/user">
<xsl:attribute name="{name()}">
<xsl:value-of select="'foo'"/>
</xsl:attribute>
but got this result:
read-access>
<namespace-resource root="">
<security-role-mapping name="">
<group name=""/>
<group name=""/>
</security-role-mapping>
</namespace-resource>
</read-access>
I seem to be matching the wrong node and replacing it with
blank lines.
Ann Marie
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