Hi Naomi,
At 11:31 AM 11/10/2004, you wrote:
I'm trying to retain the original attributes from the
figure match and the following code seems to work,
although I haven't seen many instances with two
copy-of's in a row--do you know if this is okay
practice?:
<xsl:template match="figure[./title/indexterm]">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
<xsl:copy-of select=".//indexterm"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
It's just fine, and in fact in this case it's de rigeur, since you have to
make sure the attributes (select="@*") are added to the result before any
elements are (select=".//indexterm") ... even though this time they'd be
ordered that way in any case (since in document order an element's
attributes come before its descendants).
It seems preferable than recreating each attribute
(some are custom) with the <attribute> tag.
Definitement!
Cheers,
Wendell
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