On 21/01/2008, Abel Braaksma <abel(_dot_)online(_at_)xs4all(_dot_)nl> wrote:
My intuition is the same as yours ;) I understand the reasoning behind
the decisions, but I find myself doing a lot of extra work when I am
dealing with attributes.
That describes it nicely. Although I've been working with this for
years now, I still rarely get it right the first time around when
comes to attributes.
So for a bit of a summary - 2.0 makes things much simpler (as usual ):
To process all attributes except one:
@* except @foo
To check if the current attribute is a particular one:
test="self::attribute(foo)"
...and we should perhaps re-learn the identity transform for 2.0 as:
<xsl:template match="element()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*,node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="attribute()|text()|comment()|processing-instruction()">
<xsl:copy/>
</xsl:template>
...which might make attribute processing more intuitive for future xslt'ers.
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Andrew Welch
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