Re: [xsl] Identity transformation (without using xsl:copy)

[Oleg Tkachenko <olegt at multiconn dot com>]

Roger L. Costello wrote:
> A few weeks ago I posted a message (below) asking how to do an identity
> transformation (without using <xsl:copy>) on instance documents that
> contain namespace declarations.  The resounding response was "no way".
> [Thanks for your input!]  Okay, after much testing and reading I have
> convinced myself that you are correct - <xsl:copy> must be used.  It
> seems to me that this puts some serious limits on XSLT.  Consider this
> simple problem:  write a stylesheet which does an identity
> transformation, but where all element (local) names are converted to
> upper case.  For example:
XML is case-sensitive stuff, so I believe this transformation has 
nothing to do with identity transformation by definition.

> The more general question is: if I use <xsl:copy> to copy over an input
> tree to an output tree how can I make modifications to elements names
> (such as converting the local part to upper case, as shown above), and
> modifications to each element's (non-namespace declaration) attributes? 
Copy is just copy as is, you cannot use copy to make modifications.

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Oleg Tkachenko
Multiconn International, Israel


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